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Minor earthquake: M3.58 quake has struck near Polson in Montana


Earthquake location 47.8293333S, -113.737WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Polson in Montana. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 17:18:01 / April 11, 2020 @ 5:18 pm. Unique identifier: mb80402939. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80402939. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:18:01 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.99 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 2.99 km, -113.737° West, 47.8293333° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whitefish, Evergreen, Kalispell. Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Kalispell (c. 19 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Evergreen (c. 7 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Whitefish (c. 6 400 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 35 km ENE of Polson, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.737° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.8293333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km ENE of Polson, Montana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-11 17:18:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 17:41:18 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 197 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 mb80402939 Id of event.
Event Code 80402939 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80402939, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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