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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Bancroft in Idaho


Earthquake location 42.737666666667S, -111.807WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Bancroft in Idaho on Sunday. Event id: uu80081876. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb90060943, uu80081876. Exact location of event, depth 7.6 km, -111.807° West, 42.737666666667° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 09:26:29 / September 8, 2024 @ 9:26 am. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:26:29 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.6 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Pocatello (c. 54 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Chubbuck (c. 13 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Blackfoot (c. 11 900 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Preston (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Preston, Blackfoot, Chubbuck.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 6 km ENE of Bancroft, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.807° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.737666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km ENE of Bancroft, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-08 09:26:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-10 16:41:52 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 170 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 uu80081876 Id of event.
Event Code 80081876 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb90060943,uu80081876, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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