Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Challis in Idaho

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was reported 73 km WSW of Challis, Idaho (45 miles) on Thursday. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:10:29 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.03 km (5 miles). Event id: mb80401264. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80401264. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.1048333 West, latitude 44.3018333 North, depth = 8.03 km. Global time and date of event 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 20:10:29 / April 9, 2020 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 73 km WSW of Challis, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.1048333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.3018333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km WSW of Challis, Idaho	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-09 20:10:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-09 20:49:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	176	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.892	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb80401264	Id of event.
Event Code	80401264	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80401264,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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