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A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook Idaho residents Monday morning, with impacts felt in Boise and around the Treasure Valley.. The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey said occurred at 10:25 a.m ...
Since 1919, the Idaho Geological Survey (formerly Bureau of Mines and Geology) has studied and reported on the general and environmental geology of the state. The Survey also studies and reports on the water (both surface and ground), mineral data, and energy assets of the state.
The 2020 Central Idaho earthquake occurred in the western United States on March 31, 2020, at 5:52 PM MDT, near Ruffneck Peak in the Sawtooth Mountains of central Idaho, 72 miles (116 km) northeast of Boise and 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Stanley. [3] [4] [5] It had a magnitude of 6.5 and was felt with a maximum intensity of VIII.
Creighton, D.N., 1987, Menan Buttes, southeastern Idaho, in Beus, S.S., ed., Centennial Field Guide Volume 2 Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of ...
The ongoing Idaho 55 highway project near Smiths Ferry will cost more than double the original price tag after repeated rock slides demonstrated that its initial design and construction plans were ...
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Galena Peak ranks as the 94th-highest peak in Idaho, and it is part of the Boulder Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [1] The mountain is situated 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Ketchum, Idaho, on the common border shared by Blaine County and Custer County.
[1] [5] The mountain is situated five miles (8.0 km) northeast of Clark Fork, Idaho, on land managed by Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The mountain is within the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Area. [6] Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains to Lake Pend Oreille.