Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 09:10:22 / May 30, 2018 @ 9:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.98 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, depth 12.98 km, -112.5216° West, 46.8792° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:10:22 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80295279, us1000eeqn. Unique identifier: us1000eeqn.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5216° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8792° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.98 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	2018-05-30 09:10:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-20 05:58:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	121	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	0.119	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us1000eeqn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000eeqn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80295279,us1000eeqn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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