Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag was detected near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. The temblor was picked up at 18:18:29 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.33 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -112.5273333° West, latitude 46.908° North, depth = 11.33 km. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80285279. Unique identifier: mb80285279. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/18 / 2018-03-05 01:18:29 / March 5, 2018 @ 1:18 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5273333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.908° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km 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	2018-03-05 01:18:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-05 15:02:57	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	130	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 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	mb80285279	Id of event.
Event Code	80285279	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80285279,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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