Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 00:48:47 / January 21, 2017 @ 12:48 am. Exact location of event, depth -3.41 km, -112.7898331° West, 46.7970009° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:48:47 / 5:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -3.41 km (-2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: mb80197409. Event ids that are associated: mb80197409.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anaconda, Helena Valley Southeast, Helena.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 19 km SSW of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.93 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.7898331° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.7970009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-3.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km SSW of Lincoln, Montana	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-21 00:48:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-21 06:24:46	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	132	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	mb80197409	Id of event.
Event Code	80197409	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80197409,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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