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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near West Yellowstone in Montana


Earthquake location 44.7478333S, -110.9831667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana (8 miles). Unique identifier: uu60270117. Ids that are associated to the event: uu60270117. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.63 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 17:43:06 / February 18, 2018 @ 5:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -110.9831667 West, latitude 44.7478333 North, depth = 10.63 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:43:06 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NE of West Yellowstone, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -110.9831667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7478333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 17:43:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 17:57:16 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 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02001 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 uu60270117 Id of event.
Event Code 60270117 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uu60270117, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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