Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Global time and date of event 23/07/17 / 2017-07-23 22:36:01 / July 23, 2017 @ 10:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 8.27 km, -112.5116667° West, 46.9018333° North. The temblor was picked up at 15:36:01 / 3:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80235579. Id of event: mb80235579. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.27 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event 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). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5116667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.9018333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ESE 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 22:36:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-24 16:24:36	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	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.38	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	211	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	mb80235579	Id of event.
Event Code	80235579	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80235579,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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