Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag strikes near Whitehall in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Whitehall in Montana. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 19:03:14 / July 2, 2018 @ 7:03 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -112.131 West, latitude 45.7235 North, depth = 7.72 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.72 km (5 miles). Id of earthquake: mb80300149. Event ids that are associated: mb80300149. The temblor was detected at 12:03:14 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anaconda, Belgrade, Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km S of Whitehall, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.49 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.131° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.7235° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km S of Whitehall, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-02 19:03:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-02 19:30:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	188	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.211	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	mb80300149	Id of event.
Event Code	80300149	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80300149,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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