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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Manhattan in Montana


Earthquake location 45.875S, -111.3905WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Manhattan in Montana. Global time and date of event 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 01:10:06 / October 26, 2018 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: us1000hhcz. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhcz. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:10:06 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -111.3905 West, latitude 45.875 North, depth = 1 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WNW of Manhattan, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.3905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.875° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WNW of Manhattan, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-26 01:10:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 01:41:16 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 129 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 ,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 0.324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000hhcz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhcz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hhcz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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