Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag has occurred near Butte in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Butte in Montana. The temblor was reported at 13:02:06 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 19:02:06 / July 27, 2016 @ 7:02 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of -2 km (-1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80163444. Unique identifier: mb80163444. Exact location of earthquake, -112.4775° West, 46.0183333° North, depth -2 km.

The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena Valley West Central, Helena.

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ENE of Butte, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.4775° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.0183333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km ENE of Butte, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-27 19:02:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-27 19:25:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	quarry blast	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb80163444	Id of event.
Event Code	80163444	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80163444,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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