Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location of event, depth 14.23 km, -112.6548333° West, 46.8871667° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.23 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 17:45:59 / February 3, 2019 @ 5:45 pm. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:45:59 / 10:45 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80334759. Unique identifier: mb80334759.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop).

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

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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: 7 km SSE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.6548333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8871667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE 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	2019-02-03 17:45:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-03 18:06:24	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	133	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.068	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	mb80334759	Id of event.
Event Code	80334759	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80334759,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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