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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Plains in Montana


Earthquake location 47.4174S, -114.6146WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Plains in Montana. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:12:39 / 4:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004ecq. Unique identifier: us70004ecq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.6146 West, latitude 47.4174 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/19 / 2019-07-07 23:12:39 / July 7, 2019 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Missoula, Orchard Homes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km ESE of Plains, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.6146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.4174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE of Plains, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-07 23:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-08 00:50:38 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 148 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 0.747 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us70004ecq Id of event.
Event Code 70004ecq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ecq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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