Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Georgetown in Idaho

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Georgetown in Idaho. Global time and date of event 22/11/20 / 2020-11-22 11:49:14 / November 22, 2020 @ 11:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.28 km (2 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:49:14 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000crgb. Id of event: us6000crgb. Exact location of event, depth 3.28 km, -111.4507° West, 42.5805° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Preston. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.4507° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.5805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NNW of Georgetown, Idaho	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-22 11:49:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-22 11:55:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	129	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	0.317	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	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	us6000crgb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000crgb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000crgb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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