Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Manhattan in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Manhattan in Montana. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.24 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/02/19 / 2019-02-22 14:09:50 / February 22, 2019 @ 2:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:09:50 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: mb80336454. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80336454. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.3288333 West, latitude 45.9008333 North, depth = 5.24 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km N of Manhattan, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.3288333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.9008333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km N of Manhattan, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-22 14:09:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-22 22:20:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	123	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.005	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	mb80336454	Id of event.
Event Code	80336454	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80336454,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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