Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.96 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -112.8255° West, 47.0051° North, depth 15.96 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/17 / 2017-09-06 13:39:56 / September 6, 2017 @ 1:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 06:39:56 / 6:39 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000aguu. Unique identifier: us2000aguu.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena, Helena Valley West Central. 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 two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km WNW of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.8255° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.0051° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WNW 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	2017-09-06 13:39:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-06 13:48:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	148	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	0.127	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us2000aguu	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aguu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000aguu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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