Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana (27 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.5 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: mb15710001. Event ids that are associated: us100034p1, mb15710001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 07:43:55 / August 25, 2015 @ 7:43 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:43:55 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.5 km, -111.5956° West, 44.812° North.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.5956° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.812° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-25 07:43:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-25 14:29:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	automatic	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	66	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09611974	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32.399997408	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mc	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb15710001	Id of event.
Event Code	15710001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100034p1,mb15710001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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