Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near West Yellowstone in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 24 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana (15 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.42 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uu60391377. Id of event: uu60391377. Exact location of event, depth 7.42 km, -110.8063354° West, 44.7313347° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:39:04 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/20 / 2020-05-29 10:39:04 / May 29, 2020 @ 10:39 am UTC/GMT.

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 24 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-110.8063354° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.7313347° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-29 10:39:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-29 10:42:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	automatic	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	uu	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	uu60391377	Id of event.
Event Code	60391377	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu60391377,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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