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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Dillon in Montana

Posted by admin on May 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.2360001S, -112.4226685WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Dillon in Montana. The temblor was picked up at 03:38:47 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: mb80147519. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80147519. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.54 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -112.4226685 West, latitude 45.2360001 North, depth = 4.54 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 09:38:47 / May 17, 2016 @ 9:38 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km E of Dillon, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.4226685° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.2360001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km E of Dillon, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-17 09:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-17 12:15:42 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 154 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 mb80147519 Id of event.
Event Code 80147519 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80147519, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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