Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Seeley Lake in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 41 km ENE of Seeley Lake, Montana (25 miles). Unique identifier: mb15799028. Ids that are associated to the event: mb15799028. Exact location of event, longitude -113.003 West, latitude 47.359 North, depth = 11.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/15 / 2015-08-09 07:51:56 / August 9, 2015 @ 7:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:51:56 / 1:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 41 km ENE of Seeley Lake, 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	-113.003° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.359° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km 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	2015-08-09 07:51:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-26 15:38:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2946474	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89.999992800001	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	mb15799028	Id of event.
Event Code	15799028	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb15799028,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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