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Minor earthquake: M2.95 quake has struck near Virginia City in Montana

Posted by admin on April 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.0321655S, -111.8656693WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 29 km SSE of Virginia City, Montana (18 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -3.11 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80136689. Id of event: mb80136689. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:46:39 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 04:46:39 / April 18, 2016 @ 4:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, -111.8656693° West, 45.0321655° North, depth -3.11 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km SSE of Virginia City, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.8656693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.0321655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -3.11 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 2016-04-18 04:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-18 12:15:32 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 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 134 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 mb80136689 Id of event.
Event Code 80136689 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80136689, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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