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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near western Montana

Posted by admin on July 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.3368333S, -112.0915WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes western Montana kilometers (0 miles) from western Montana on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -112.0915° West, 45.3368333° North, depth 2.71 km. The temblor was reported at 17:30:32 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 17:30:32 / July 6, 2018 @ 5:30 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: mb80300959. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80300959. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.71 km (2 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: western Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0915° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.3368333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place western Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-06 17:30:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-06 17:48:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 mb80300959 Id of event.
Event Code 80300959 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80300959, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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