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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Seeley Lake in Montana


Earthquake location 47.2889S, -113.2137WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Seeley Lake in Montana. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/24 / 2024-07-05 10:46:38 / July 5, 2024 @ 10:46 am. The temblor was detected at 10:46:38 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mx7h. Unique identifier: us7000mx7h. Exact location, longitude -113.2137° West, latitude 47.2889° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orchard Homes, Missoula (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 23 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.2137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.2889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-05 10:46:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-05 11:11:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.667 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 238 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mx7h Id of event.
Event Code 7000mx7h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mx7h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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