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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near West Yellowstone in Montana

Posted by admin on February 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.7498322S, -110.987999WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 13 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana (8 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: uu60269362. Event ids that are associated: uu60269362. Global time and date of event 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 05:53:02 / February 18, 2018 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -110.987999 West, latitude 44.7498322 North, depth = 8.7 km. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:53:02 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.7 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 13 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.987999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7498322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-18 05:53:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 05:56:28 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 130 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 uu60269362 Id of event.
Event Code 60269362 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60269362, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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