A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. The temblor was picked up at 02:10:22 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 12.76 km, -112.5328333° West, 46.8741667° North. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80295279. Unique identifier: mb80295279. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.76 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 09:10:22 / May 30, 2018 @ 9:10 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 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).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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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