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Minor earthquake 3.81 mag, 25 km NNE of Deer Lodge, Montana


Earthquake location 46.57S, -112.5486667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Deer Lodge in Montana. Event id: mb80201999. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088l5, mb80201999. The temblor was detected at 20:02:24 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.55 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -112.5486667 West, latitude 46.57 North, depth = 19.55 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/03/17 / 2017-03-13 03:02:24 / March 13, 2017 @ 3:02 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Butte-Silver Bow (Balance), Butte, Anaconda (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km NNE of Deer Lodge, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5486667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.57° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNE of Deer Lodge, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-13 03:02:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-13 03:40:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.87 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 228 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 mb80201999 Id of event.
Event Code 80201999 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088l5,mb80201999, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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