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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Cascade in Idaho

Posted by admin on May 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.4282S, -115.2182WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 66 km E of Cascade, Idaho (41 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009me1. Event ids that are associated: us70009me1. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:33:50 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.64 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 11:33:50 / May 21, 2020 @ 11:33 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.2182 West, latitude 44.4282 North, depth = 11.64 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 66 km E of Cascade, Idaho.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2182° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.4282° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km E of Cascade, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-21 11:33:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-21 11:55:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.455 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 304 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 0.863 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us70009me1 Id of event.
Event Code 70009me1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009me1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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