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6.9.
We moved to Minnesota to be near my husbands parents.
They are both gone now. Our intent all along was to move back home to Idaho.
This will be our third attempt to move back. The other times were cancelled due to family issues, but now the kids are all grown and have their own families.
One of our daughters has already moved back to Boise with her three kids, and my Dad is in a nursing home in Bend, Oregon.
Our timeline was to put the house on the market the first week in April. The housing market has been good here due to the fact that there is a shortage of housing in Rochester (50 miles away) and the expansion of the Mayo Clinic. We also have three colleges in town. So, depending on this whole outcome with the Coronavirus, we have to wait and see.
I can tell you, the minute we can put this house on the market and there's no more virus threat, we're outta here.
Same here! Good luck. What area are you looking at in ID?
There didn't seem to be much earthquake for a 6.9. 6.9 is a big earthquake.
I heard someone in the TV say that in Idaho, the quakes are caused by the fault lines moving apart and further around the circle (California) the quakes are caused by the plates pushing together. I'm not a geologist, so don't really understand the details, but it makes a sort of sense.
IIRC, the faults in ID tend to run more in a N-S direction which is pretty common in the western US. Movements can be at the surface, like the Mt Borah quake in the early 80's where the surface on one side of the fault rose relative to the other by about 10 ft. Or the quakes can be deep in the earth, with little surface movement. This last one is pretty remote so I doubt that anyone has gotten to the exact area on the ground to yet see if there was any surface movement.
Yeah, and I noticed today that the aftershocks were being listed in distance relative to Challis, Idaho City, and Cascade. So the 'location' is probably relative to the closest town with over 500 people or something like that. I guess Stanley just does not rate with its population of 67 LOL
As you probably already know low population counts sound great to me. Gotta check out those real estate prices.
$250-300K for 1/3 acre lot in town.
$500k for 5 acres a 4-5 miles out on a dirt road.
$900k for a modest 3 BR home about 10 miles south.
$525k for a 3 BR cabin about 20 miles south in Smiley Creek.
The land available to build is extremely limited as it is a Scenic Recreation Area. The Fed's have bought up as much land as they can, and have paid for 'scenic easements' on a lot of the remaining private lands, and that limits development of those lands. House size limits exist on how close to the road you are.
$250-300K for 1/3 acre lot in town.
$500k for 5 acres a 4-5 miles out on a dirt road.
$900k for a modest 3 BR home about 10 miles south.
$525k for a 3 BR cabin about 20 miles south in Smiley Creek.
The land available to build is extremely limited as it is a Scenic Recreation Area. The Fed's have bought up as much land as they can, and have paid for 'scenic easements' on a lot of the remaining private lands, and that limits development of those lands. House size limits exist on how close to the road you are.
Yes that is expensive.
Thanks for info
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That's a good one! I gotta 'member that. 
Yes that is expensive.
