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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Manhattan in Montana


Earthquake location 45.8669S, -111.3619WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Manhattan in Montana on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/20 / 2020-02-25 05:53:24 / February 25, 2020 @ 5:53 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:53:24 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70007wax. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007wax. Exact location, longitude -111.3619° West, latitude 45.8669° North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade. The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 66 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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 2 km WNW of Manhattan, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WNW 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 2020-02-25 05:53:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-25 06:09:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 135 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 0.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70007wax Id of event.
Event Code 70007wax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007wax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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