Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag was detected near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 14 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana (9 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.2 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 11.2 km, -111.0408325° West, 44.7806664° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60204447. Id of event: uu60204447. The temblor was reported at 15:48:07 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/17 / 2017-06-16 22:48:07 / June 16, 2017 @ 10:48 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 14 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.0408325° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.7806664° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.2 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	2017-06-16 22:48:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-16 22:51:32	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	135	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04926	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	uu60204447	Id of event.
Event Code	60204447	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60204447,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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