Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Helena Valley Northwest in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Helena Valley Northwest in Montana. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80120229. Id of event: mb80120229. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.45 km (5 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:50:07 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0195 West, latitude 46.7993333 North, depth = 7.45 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/01/16 / 2016-01-15 13:50:07 / January 15, 2016 @ 1:50 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (14 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena, Helena Valley Southeast, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km NNE of Helena Valley Northwest, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0195° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.7993333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNE of Helena Valley Northwest, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-15 13:50:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-15 14:55:04	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	121	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.157	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	mb80120229	Id of event.
Event Code	80120229	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80120229,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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