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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near southern Idaho


Earthquake location 44.5265S, -115.2243WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, southern Idaho (0 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:26:07 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70008wu0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008wu0. Exact location, longitude -115.2243° West, latitude 44.5265° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 15:26:07 / April 15, 2020 @ 3:26 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: southern Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2243° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-15 15:26:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 21:36:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70008wu0 Id of event.
Event Code 70008wu0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wu0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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