A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Idaho City in Idaho. The temblor was picked up at 14:26:23 / 2:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 18.08 km, -115.5885° West, 44.1389° North. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80398114, us70008q7w. Unique identifier: us70008q7w. Global time and date of event 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 21:26:23 / April 6, 2020 @ 9:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.08 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Boise. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Boise (c. 146 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 39 km NNE of Idaho City, Idaho.
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