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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Challis in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.2788S, -115.1252WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 75 km WSW of Challis, Idaho (47 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.81 km (10 miles). Event id: us70008p8g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008p8g. The temblor was reported at 05:54:52 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 12:54:52 / April 5, 2020 @ 12:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -115.1252° West, 44.2788° North, depth 16.81 km.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km WSW of Challis, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.1252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.2788° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2020-04-05 12:54:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-22 04:58:49 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 121 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 0.881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us70008p8g Id of event.
Event Code 70008p8g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008p8g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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