Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag strikes near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 15 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana (9 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: uu60221232. Event ids that are associated: uu60221232. Exact location of event, longitude -111.0271667 West, latitude 44.7915 North, depth = 11.04 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 09:57:08 / August 3, 2017 @ 9:57 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.04 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:57:08 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.0271667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.7915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2017-08-03 09:57:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-03 10:08:56	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	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	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03548	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	uu60221232	Id of event.
Event Code	60221232	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60221232,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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