Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag was detected near Whitehall in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Whitehall in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.1323333° West, latitude 45.715° North, depth = 8.84 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:01:44 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8.84 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80165464. Unique identifier: mb80165464. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 18:01:44 / August 11, 2016 @ 6:01 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anaconda, Belgrade, Butte-Silver Bow (Balance). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Whitehall, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.1323333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.715° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km S of Whitehall, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-11 18:01:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-11 18:19:29	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	180	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.216	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	74	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	mb80165464	Id of event.
Event Code	80165464	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80165464,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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