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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana


Earthquake location 46.8037S, -112.5401WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.5401 West, latitude 46.8037 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009zyb. Unique identifier: us20009zyb. The temblor was detected at 23:53:22 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/17 / 2017-07-23 06:53:22 / July 23, 2017 @ 6:53 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central.

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km SSE of Lincoln, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5401° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2017-07-23 06:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-23 07:36:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 158 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 0.113 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us20009zyb Id of event.
Event Code 20009zyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009zyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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