Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Boulder in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Boulder in Montana. Global time and date of event 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 06:40:45 / April 22, 2020 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:40:45 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.79 km, -112.0595° West, 46.2553333° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.79 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: mb80410219. Event ids that are associated: mb80410219.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anaconda, Butte-Silver Bow (Balance), Butte (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Butte (c. 34 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Butte-Silver Bow (Balance) (c. 33 500 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 5 km ENE of Boulder, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.0595° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.2553333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ENE of Boulder, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-22 06:40:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-22 14:40:58	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	123	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.402	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	mb80410219	Id of event.
Event Code	80410219	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80410219,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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