A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Manhattan in Montana on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:50:18 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us600050nm. Ids that are associated to the event: us600050nm. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -111.346° West, 45.878° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/19 / 2019-08-04 23:50:18 / August 4, 2019 @ 11:50 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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 NNW of Manhattan, Montana.
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