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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Bigfork in Montana


Earthquake location 48.1555S, -114.0858WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bigfork in Montana. The temblor was picked up at 18:44:47 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.92 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -114.0858 West, latitude 48.1555 North, depth = 9.92 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/18 / 2018-01-22 01:44:47 / January 22, 2018 @ 1:44 am. Event id: us2000cma6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cma6.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whitefish, Kalispell, Evergreen (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 10 km N of Bigfork, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.0858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.1555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Bigfork, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-22 01:44:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-22 02:20:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us2000cma6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cma6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cma6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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