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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Idaho City in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.1211667S, -115.0695WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 69 km ENE of Idaho City, Idaho (43 miles). Unique identifier: mb80417344. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80417344. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/05/20 / 2020-05-05 07:16:55 / May 5, 2020 @ 7:16 am UTC/GMT. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:16:55 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.31 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -115.0695 West, latitude 44.1211667 North, depth = 10.31 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 69 km ENE of Idaho City, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.0695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1211667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km ENE of Idaho 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 2020-05-05 07:16:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 23:20:40 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 126 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.265 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 mb80417344 Id of event.
Event Code 80417344 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80417344, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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