A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Virginia City in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.0948° West, latitude 45.3703° North, depth = 10.32 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:30:31 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.32 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80300959, us2000fyer. Unique identifier: us2000fyer. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 17:30:31 / July 6, 2018 @ 5:30 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop).
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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km NW of Virginia City, Montana.
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