Minor earthquake 3 mag, 26 km WSW of Augusta, Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 26 km WSW of Augusta, Montana (16 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 11:18:08 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pl7b. Event ids that are associated: mb90071248, us6000pl7b. Exact location of event, depth 29.659 km, -112.7358° West, 47.4294° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 11:18:08 / January 20, 2025 @ 11:18 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.659 km (18 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.7358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.4294° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.659 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km WSW of Augusta, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-20 11:18:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 07:26:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	139	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	,mb,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.357	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us6000pl7b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pl7b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb90071248,us6000pl7b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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