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Earthquake: M 3.6 quake strikes near Somers in Montana


Earthquake location 48.0525S, -114.199WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (mg/mb) has striked on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Somers in Montana. The temblor was reported at 00:45:54 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 7.2 km (4 miles). Global time of event 11/04/15 / 2015-04-11 06:45:54 / April 11, 2015 @ 6:45 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -114.199 West, latitude 48.0525 North, depth 7.2 km, unique identifier, mb31284.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whitefish, Evergreen, Kalispell.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.199° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.0525° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Somers, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-11 06:45:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-11 07:10:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 69 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.77 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 226 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.116781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248.399980128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mc The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID mb31284 Id of event.
Event Code 31284 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb31284, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. Ginny Boone

    I woke to a loud boom and then felt the rumble and shaking of my house.
    I was confused and very startled thinking it was an earthquake but then figured it must have been thunder intense enough to cause the house to shake.
    It was 12;45am according to my cell phone.

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