Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana (9 miles). Id of earthquake: uu60202047. Event ids that are associated: uu60202047. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 22:54:55 / June 12, 2017 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10.54 km, -111.0305023° West, 44.784832° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.54 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:54:55 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 14 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.0305023° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.784832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2017-06-12 22:54:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-12 22:58:19	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	128	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03084	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	uu60202047	Id of event.
Event Code	60202047	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60202047,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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