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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Somers in Montana


Earthquake location 48.0903333S, -114.1596667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Somers in Montana. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -114.1596667 West, latitude 48.0903333 North, depth = 8 km. The temblor was detected at 11:52:06 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80277739. Unique identifier: mb80277739. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 18:52:06 / January 14, 2018 @ 6:52 pm.

The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whitefish, Evergreen, Kalispell (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ENE of Somers, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.1596667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.0903333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ENE 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 2018-01-14 18:52:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 19:16:29 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 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 147 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 mb80277739 Id of event.
Event Code 80277739 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80277739, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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