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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.5599° West, latitude 46.866° North, depth = 8.91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.91 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000985b. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000985b. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:38:23 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 12:38:23 / July 8, 2017 @ 12:38 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anaconda, Helena Valley Southeast, Helena (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5599° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.866° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.91 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	2017-07-08 12:38:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-08 12:57:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.8	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	264	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	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	0.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us1000985b	Id of event.
Event Code	1000985b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000985b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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