Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Event id: us2000a5vm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80242184, us2000a5vm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.25 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -112.6454° West, latitude 46.8704° North, depth = 10.25 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:43:18 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/17 / 2017-08-08 08:43:18 / August 8, 2017 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km SSE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.6454° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8704° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE 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	2017-08-08 08:43:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-18 07:54:58	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	2	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	0.082	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	64	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	us2000a5vm	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a5vm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80242184,us2000a5vm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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