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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Clinton in Montana


Earthquake location 46.694S, -113.4972WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Clinton in Montana on Friday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:04:16 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.1 km, -113.4972° West, 46.694° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/08/18 / 2018-08-11 06:04:16 / August 11, 2018 @ 6:04 am. Unique identifier: us1000g6tg. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g6tg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anaconda, Orchard Homes, Missoula.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km ESE of Clinton, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.4972° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ESE of Clinton, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-11 06:04:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-11 06:32:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.16 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 212 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 ,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 0.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000g6tg Id of event.
Event Code 1000g6tg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g6tg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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