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Minor earthquake: M3.56 quake has struck near Deer Lodge in Montana


Earthquake location 46.5358333S, -112.5166667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Deer Lodge in Montana. Unique identifier: mb80273484. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80273484. The temblor was detected at 18:49:23 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/17 / 2017-12-07 01:49:23 / December 7, 2017 @ 1:49 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.86 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -112.5166667° West, latitude 46.5358333° North, depth = 20.86 km.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance), Butte, Anaconda (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NE of Deer Lodge, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5166667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.5358333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Deer Lodge, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-07 01:49:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 21:44:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.5 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 197 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 mb80273484 Id of event.
Event Code 80273484 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80273484, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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