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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana


Earthquake location 46.866S, -112.5599WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.5599° West, latitude 46.866° North, depth = 8.91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.91 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000985b. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000985b. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:38:23 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 12:38:23 / July 8, 2017 @ 12:38 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Anaconda (c. 9 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anaconda, Helena Valley Southeast, Helena (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 13 km SE of Lincoln, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5599° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2017-07-08 12:38:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-08 12:57:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.8 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 264 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 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us1000985b Id of event.
Event Code 1000985b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000985b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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