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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Manhattan in Montana


Earthquake location 45.8564S, -111.3612WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Manhattan in Montana. Event id: us6000506y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000506y. Global time and date of event 03/08/19 / 2019-08-03 14:44:46 / August 3, 2019 @ 2:44 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -111.3612° West, latitude 45.8564° North, depth = 4.95 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:44:46 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.95 km (3 miles).

Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 2 km W of Manhattan, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W 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 2019-08-03 14:44:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 18:50:39 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 3.8 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 122 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 0.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000506y Id of event.
Event Code 6000506y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000506y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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