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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Lincoln in Montana

Posted by admin on July 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.8651S, -112.5611WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 08:49:49 / July 17, 2017 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.57 km (7 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:49:49 / 1:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.57 km, -112.5611° West, 46.8651° North. Event id: us20009ww4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009ww4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event 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 (28 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). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-eight 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.57 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 2017-07-17 08:49:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-17 09:09:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 48 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.45 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 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20009ww4 Id of event.
Event Code 20009ww4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009ww4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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