{"id":43141,"date":"2026-01-29T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:56:19","slug":"map-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43141","title":{"rendered":"Map: 4.2-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.<\/span>  <span class=\"g-credit-note g-note-outage g-outages-timestamp svelte-6t0d6y\">\u00a0All times on the map are Mountain time.<\/span> <span class=\"g-credit-note svelte-6t0d6y\">The New York Times<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">A light, 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Montana on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">The temblor happened at 12:41 p.m. Mountain time about 7 miles northeast of Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., data from the agency shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake\u2019s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-urmhfi\">Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Mountain time. Shake data is as of Thursday, Jan. 29 at 2:56 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Thursday, Jan. 29 at 3:41 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as \u201cweak,\u201d though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. \u00a0All times on the map are Mountain time. The New York Times A light, 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Montana on Thursday, according to the United States Geological<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22615,2417,2415,7308,7692],"class_list":{"0":"post-43141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-4-2magnitude","9":"tag-earthquake","10":"tag-map","11":"tag-montana","12":"tag-shakes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}