Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -112.5206667° West, 46.8746667° North, depth 12.54 km. Unique identifier: mb80472329. Ids that are associated to the event: mb80472329. The temblor was detected at 12:22:27 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.54 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/10/20 / 2020-10-30 12:22:27 / October 30, 2020 @ 12:22 pm.

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). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 15 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.5206667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8746667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km 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	2020-10-30 12:22:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-30 14:15:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	169	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	mb80472329	Id of event.
Event Code	80472329	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80472329,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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