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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 14 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana


Earthquake location 46.8998S, -112.5163WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600044kl. Id of event: us600044kl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.91 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/06/19 / 2019-06-22 05:17:38 / June 22, 2019 @ 5:17 am. The temblor was reported at 22:17:38 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.5163 West, latitude 46.8998 North, depth = 10.91 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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 ESE of Lincoln, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2019-06-22 05:17:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-22 08:23:57 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 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 ,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 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us600044kl Id of event.
Event Code 600044kl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600044kl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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