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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 26 km ESE of Seeley Lake, Montana


Earthquake location 47.0886667S, -113.1571667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Seeley Lake in Montana on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10.82 km, -113.1571667° West, 47.0886667° North. The temblor was detected at 19:48:21 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/07/17 / 2017-07-10 02:48:21 / July 10, 2017 @ 2:48 am. Unique identifier: mb80228764. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80228764. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.82 km (7 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orchard Homes, Missoula. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km ESE of Seeley Lake, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.1571667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.0886667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Seeley Lake, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-10 02:48:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-10 03:30:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 139 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 mb80228764 Id of event.
Event Code 80228764 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80228764, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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