Minor earthquake: M3.47 quake has struck near Virginia City in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 29 km SSE of Virginia City, Montana (18 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80115959. Id of event: mb80115959. Exact location of event, longitude -111.8545 West, latitude 45.0363333 North, depth = 4.51 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 13:37:09 / December 18, 2015 @ 1:37 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.51 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:37:09 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 29 km SSE of Virginia City, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.47 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.8545° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.0363333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SSE of Virginia City, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-18 13:37:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-18 15:12:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	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	185	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	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.237	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	mb80115959	Id of event.
Event Code	80115959	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80115959,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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