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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Georgetown in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.5835S, -111.3031WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Georgetown in Idaho on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 17:01:53 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 17:01:53 / January 22, 2021 @ 5:01 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.45 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000d2gj. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60424767, us7000d2gj. Exact location of event, longitude -111.3031 West, latitude 42.5835 North, depth = 10.45 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNE of Georgetown, Idaho. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3031° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NNE 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 2021-01-22 17:01:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-22 17:33:37 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 ,uu,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 0.235 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 46 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 us7000d2gj Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2gj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60424767,us7000d2gj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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