A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Somers in Montana. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -114.1596667 West, latitude 48.0903333 North, depth = 8 km. The temblor was detected at 11:52:06 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80277739. Unique identifier: mb80277739. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 18:52:06 / January 14, 2018 @ 6:52 pm.
The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whitefish, Evergreen, Kalispell (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ENE of Somers, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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