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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Malad City in Idaho


Earthquake location 41.980999S, -112.4465027WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Malad City in Idaho on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.01 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: uu60383497. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60383497. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 13:43:52 / May 3, 2020 @ 1:43 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.4465027 West, latitude 41.980999 North, depth = 1.01 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:43:52 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brigham City, Hyrum, Nibley. Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Logan (c. 48 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Brigham City (c. 17 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Smithfield (c. 9 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from North Logan (c. 8 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tremonton (c. 7 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km SW of Malad City, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4465027° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.980999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW of Malad City, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-03 13:43:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-03 13:47:58 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 automatic 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 uu60383497 Id of event.
Event Code 60383497 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60383497, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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