Minor earthquake, 3.12 mag strikes near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) strikes 17 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana (11 miles) on Friday. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:37:31 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.28 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: uu60182362. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60182362. Exact location of earthquake, -111.0116653° West, 44.8069992° North, depth 7.28 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 16:37:31 / January 20, 2017 @ 4:37 pm.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.0116653° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.8069992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-20 16:37:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-20 16:40:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	automatic	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	150	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uu	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04783	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	uu60182362	Id of event.
Event Code	60182362	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60182362,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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