Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Challis in Idaho

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 61 km WSW of Challis, Idaho (38 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70009fr6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fr6. Exact location of event, longitude -114.9631 West, latitude 44.321 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 01:28:47 / May 14, 2020 @ 1:28 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:28:47 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 61 km WSW of Challis, Idaho.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.9631° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.321° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km 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	2020-05-14 01:28:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-14 03:13:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	0.855	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us70009fr6	Id of event.
Event Code	70009fr6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009fr6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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