Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Whitefish in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Whitefish in Montana on Thursday. Unique identifier: mb80255399. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80255399. The temblor was detected at 13:00:21 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.5865 West, latitude 48.5185 North, depth = 11.24 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/17 / 2017-09-14 20:00:21 / September 14, 2017 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.24 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalispell, Evergreen, Whitefish. Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 21 km WNW of Whitefish, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.5865° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.5185° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km WNW of Whitefish, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-14 20:00:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-14 21:14:34	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	144	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.53	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	mb80255399	Id of event.
Event Code	80255399	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80255399,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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