Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 35 km NW of Whitefish, Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Whitefish in Montana on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -114.7301° West, latitude 48.6007° North, depth = 11.01 km. Id of earthquake: us2000dxj2. Event ids that are associated: mb80288914, us2000dxj2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 10:42:28 / April 10, 2018 @ 10:42 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:42:28 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.01 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalispell, Evergreen, Whitefish. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 36 km (22 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 35 km NW of Whitefish, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.7301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.6007° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km NW 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	2018-04-10 10:42:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-10 21:11:30	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	2.2	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	159	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	,mb,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	1.039	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us2000dxj2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dxj2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80288914,us2000dxj2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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