🚨 Rare 4.2 Quake Hits Near Great Falls, Montana 🚨 A magnitude 4.2 struck northeast of Great Falls this afternoon. Quakes of this strength are uncommon this close to the city. In the wider 300-kilometer region around Great Falls, only about ten to eleven magnitude-4 or stronger earthquakes have occurred in the past decade, which makes a shallow event of this level stand out immediately. Most of Montana’s seismic activity stays below magnitude 3 and usually happens farther west along the Intermo