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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana

Posted by admin on May 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.8439S, -112.5455WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.5455° West, latitude 46.8439° North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 11:13:13 / May 14, 2018 @ 11:13 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80293399, us1000e4qa. Id of event: us1000e4qa. The temblor was picked up at 04:13:13 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2018-05-14 11:13:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-14 23:11:01 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 0.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us1000e4qa Id of event.
Event Code 1000e4qa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80293399,us1000e4qa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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