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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Stanley in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.5232S, -115.1737WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 38 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho (24 miles) on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us7000bjyq. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80462169, us7000bjyq. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:23:48 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -115.1737 West, latitude 44.5232 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 20:23:48 / September 8, 2020 @ 8:23 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.1737° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.5232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km NNW of Stanley, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-08 20:23:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-08 21:29:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.811 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 245 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 ,mb,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 0.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bjyq Id of event.
Event Code 7000bjyq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80462169,us7000bjyq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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