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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Lima in Montana


Earthquake location 44.7245S, -112.5153WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 11 km NNE of Lima, Montana (7 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 11:40:54 / April 12, 2019 @ 11:40 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.5153 West, latitude 44.7245 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 04:40:54 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us700034xm. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80340234, us700034xm.

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

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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. 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: 11 km NNE of Lima, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5153° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.7245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE 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 2019-04-12 11:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-19 11:40:34 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 138 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 0.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us700034xm Id of event.
Event Code 700034xm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80340234,us700034xm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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