UPDATE:
The magnitude 6.5 earthquake felt in Idaho today (March 31) is being recorded as the state乌鸦传媒檚 most significant in almost 40 years.
Previous to this, in 1983, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the state.
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Cassidy said the earthquake had the potential to be damaging to areas only within 100 km of the source. In areas outside of this, chandeliers shook and high-rises swayed back and forth, however not in a damaging way according to social media.
A magnitude 4.6 aftershock has already been recorded, and Cassidy expects to see more aftershocks to come in the following days.
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The earthquake was sourced 72 kilometres west of Challis.
Plate movements in Idaho and Montana, Cassidy explained, are causing a slow separation, or stretching of regions. The plates, which move only one or two centimeters a year, have the potential to cause earthquakes such as these.
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ORIGINAL:
Reports are streaming in on social media after an earthquake shook parts of B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 interior, shortly before 5 p.m.
The US Geological Survey is reporting that the earthquake felt in B.C.乌鸦传媒檚 Interior was a magnitude 6.5 tremor in Idaho., about 72 kilometres west of Challis. The earthquake was also reportedly felt in eastern Washington.
More to come.
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