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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag has occurred near West Yellowstone in Montana


Earthquake location 44.7848333S, -111.024WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana (9 miles). Global time and date of event 12/06/17 / 2017-06-12 16:46:47 / June 12, 2017 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:46:47 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uu60201632. Event ids that are associated: uu60201632. Exact location of event, longitude -111.024 West, latitude 44.7848333 North, depth = 11.09 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.09 km (7 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7848333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNE of West Yellowstone, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-12 16:46:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-13 18:34:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 151 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uu The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uu, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 uu60201632 Id of event.
Event Code 60201632 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60201632, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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