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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Lima in Montana


Earthquake location 44.7918333S, -112.0238333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 48 km ENE of Lima, Montana (30 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:22:15 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 08:22:15 / August 27, 2018 @ 8:22 am. Id of earthquake: mb80307464. Event ids that are associated: mb80307464. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.31 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -112.0238333° West, latitude 44.7918333° North, depth = 6.31 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km ENE of Lima, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.0238333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7918333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km ENE of Lima, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-27 08:22:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-27 14:16:00 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 128 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 mb80307464 Id of event.
Event Code 80307464 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80307464, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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