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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Broadus in Montana


Earthquake location 45.0688S, -105.9452WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 km SW of Broadus, Montana (37 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15.59 km, -105.9452° West, 45.0688° North. The temblor was detected at 02:56:33 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.59 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000ebzg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80294899, us1000ebzg. Global time and date of event 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 09:56:33 / May 25, 2018 @ 9:56 am UTC/GMT.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 59 km SW of Broadus, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.9452° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.0688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SW of Broadus, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-25 09:56:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 09:32:09 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 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 129 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 1.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us1000ebzg Id of event.
Event Code 1000ebzg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80294899,us1000ebzg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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