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Minor earthquake: M3.74 quake has struck near Clancy in Montana

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Clancy in Montana. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004x0x, mb80123179. Unique identifier: mb80123179. The temblor was picked up at 00:46:59 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -112.0393295° West, 46.5021667° North, depth 0.25 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/16 / 2016-02-04 07:46:59 / February 4, 2016 @ 7:46 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.25 km (0 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance), Anaconda, Butte. Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km WNW of Clancy, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.74 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0393295° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.5021667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WNW of Clancy, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-04 07:46:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-04 13:38:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	61	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.42	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	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		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	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	mb80123179	Id of event.
Event Code	80123179	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004x0x,mb80123179,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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