Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 11.79 km, -112.845° West, 46.9335° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:22:58 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 00:22:58 / July 11, 2017 @ 12:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.79 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: us100098pp. Event ids that are associated: mb80229384, us100098pp.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km W of Lincoln, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.845° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.9335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km W 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	2017-07-11 00:22:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-11 03:47:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	139	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	,mb,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	0.078	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us100098pp	Id of event.
Event Code	100098pp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80229384,us100098pp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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