Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Boulder in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Boulder in Montana. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 01:00:19 / April 18, 2020 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:00:19 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.0499 West, latitude 46.257 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008z1g. Unique identifier: us70008z1g. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anaconda, Butte-Silver Bow (Balance), Butte. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ENE of Boulder, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0499° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.257° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ENE of Boulder, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-18 01:00:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-18 01:11:44	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	121	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	0.478	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us70008z1g	Id of event.
Event Code	70008z1g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008z1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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