Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. The temblor was picked up at 00:12:21 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.28 km (7 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a9wb. Id of event: us2000a9wb. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/08/17 / 2017-08-20 07:12:21 / August 20, 2017 @ 7:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, -112.6176° West, 46.8865° North, depth 11.28 km.

Nearby 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 Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.6176° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8865° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.28 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	2017-08-20 07:12:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-20 07:35:52	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	3.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.14	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	200	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	0.071	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us2000a9wb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a9wb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a9wb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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