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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Seeley Lake in Montana


Earthquake location 47.1093S, -113.1694WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Seeley Lake in Montana on Sunday. Global time and date of event 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 11:53:13 / March 24, 2019 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us1000jkyq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jkyq. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:53:13 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -113.1694 West, latitude 47.1093 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orchard Homes, Missoula (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 seventeen 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.

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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. 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: 25 km ESE of Seeley Lake, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.1694° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.1093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ESE of Seeley Lake, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 11:53:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 12:11:48 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 158 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 0.383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us1000jkyq Id of event.
Event Code 1000jkyq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jkyq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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