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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Cut Bank in Montana


Earthquake location 48.9059S, -112.515WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 33 km NNW of Cut Bank, Montana (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:12:05 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hflv. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80315114, us1000hflv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 14:12:05 / October 22, 2018 @ 2:12 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.91 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -112.515 West, latitude 48.9059 North, depth = 5.91 km.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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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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: 33 km NNW of Cut Bank, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.9059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NNW of Cut Bank, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-22 14:12:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 14:51:38 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 148 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 0.541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us1000hflv Id of event.
Event Code 1000hflv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80315114,us1000hflv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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