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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near West Yellowstone in Montana

Posted by admin on December 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.7587S, -111.4684WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 30 km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana (19 miles) on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 16:36:04 / December 20, 2018 @ 4:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.4684 West, latitude 44.7587 North, depth = 17.15 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.15 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80329334, us2000ivfg. Id of event: us2000ivfg. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:36:04 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.4684° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WNW of West Yellowstone, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-20 16:36:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-20 17:52:01 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 0.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us2000ivfg Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivfg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80329334,us2000ivfg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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