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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Somers in Montana


Earthquake location 48.1325S, -114.2164WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Somers in Montana. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.2164 West, latitude 48.1325 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80277739, us2000cjje. Unique identifier: us2000cjje. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 18:52:05 / January 14, 2018 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:52:05 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Whitefish, Evergreen, Kalispell (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 5 km N of Somers, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.2164° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.1325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N 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 18:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 20:09:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 150 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb,us, 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 1.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us2000cjje Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjje An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80277739,us2000cjje, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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