Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near Livingston in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Livingston in Montana. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.5973358 West, latitude 45.1331673 North, depth = 21.79 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60224552. Id of event: uu60224552. The temblor was detected at 16:11:50 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.79 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 23:11:50 / August 10, 2017 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bozeman, Livingston (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km S of Livingston, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.5973358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.1331673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km S of Livingston, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-10 23:11:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-10 23:15:52	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	133	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4136	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	314	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	uu60224552	Id of event.
Event Code	60224552	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60224552,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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