Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Sunday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:13:58 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 14:13:58 / September 10, 2017 @ 2:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.23 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -112.5044° West, 46.8837° North, depth 14.23 km. Unique identifier: us2000ajg9. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80254089, us2000ajg9.

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5044° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8837° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2017-09-10 14:13:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-10 17:25:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	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	132	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	0.125	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	114	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	us2000ajg9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ajg9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80254089,us2000ajg9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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