Minor earthquake 3.57 mag, 13 km SE of Lincoln, Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 06:15:43 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: mb80224334. Event ids that are associated: mb80224334. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.08 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/17 / 2017-07-06 13:15:43 / July 6, 2017 @ 1:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -112.5403333 West, latitude 46.8815 North, depth = 11.08 km.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5403333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8815° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SE 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	2017-07-06 13:15:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-06 13:36:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.15	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	199	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.193	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	mb80224334	Id of event.
Event Code	80224334	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80224334,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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