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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 12 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana


Earthquake location 44.7428322S, -110.9860001WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana (7 miles). Id of earthquake: uu60269872. Event ids that are associated: uu60269872. The temblor was picked up at 06:49:55 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -110.9860001° West, latitude 44.7428322° North, depth = 11.4 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 13:49:55 / February 18, 2018 @ 1:49 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.4 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 twenty-one 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.9860001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7428322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE 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 2018-02-18 13:49:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 13:54:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 automatic 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 121 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 uu60269872 Id of event.
Event Code 60269872 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60269872, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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