Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 19:24:49 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000asdi. Event ids that are associated: us1000asdi. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.95 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/17 / 2017-10-15 02:24:49 / October 15, 2017 @ 2:24 am. Exact location, longitude -112.6062° West, latitude 46.8803° North, depth = 2.95 km.

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 54 km (34 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SE of Lincoln, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.6062° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SE 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	2017-10-15 02:24:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-15 02:42:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	178	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	0.08	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us1000asdi	Id of event.
Event Code	1000asdi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000asdi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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