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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near Manhattan in Montana


Earthquake location 45.8573333S, -111.374WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Manhattan in Montana. Exact location of earthquake, -111.374° West, 45.8573333° North, depth 3.85 km. Global time and date of event 23/08/19 / 2019-08-23 22:34:32 / August 23, 2019 @ 10:34 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.85 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:34:32 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80358459. Id of event: mb80358459.

Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from Bozeman (c. 37 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Belgrade (c. 7 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Livingston (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Livingston, Bozeman, Belgrade (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 3 km W of Manhattan, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -111.374° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8573333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W 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 2019-08-23 22:34:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-23 22:49:54 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 131 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 mb80358459 Id of event.
Event Code 80358459 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80358459, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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