Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Event id: us1000aw2q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80263264, us1000aw2q. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.86 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 22:16:59 / October 19, 2017 @ 10:16 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -112.5188 West, latitude 46.8916 North, depth = 8.86 km. The temblor was reported at 15:16:59 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5188° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8916° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2017-10-19 22:16:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-30 05:18:30	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	,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	0.113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 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	us1000aw2q	Id of event.
Event Code	1000aw2q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80263264,us1000aw2q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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