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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag has occurred near Lincoln in Montana


Earthquake location 46.8786667S, -112.536WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.536 West, latitude 46.8786667 North, depth = 12.12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80235494. Unique identifier: mb80235494. Global time and date of event 23/07/17 / 2017-07-23 15:08:29 / July 23, 2017 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.12 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:08:29 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8786667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.12 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 2017-07-23 15:08:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-24 03:58:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 131 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 mb80235494 Id of event.
Event Code 80235494 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80235494, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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