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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Lincoln in Montana


Earthquake location 46.9002S, -112.5261WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. Exact location, longitude -112.5261° West, latitude 46.9002° North, depth = 13.26 km. The temblor was detected at 11:02:16 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.26 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: mb80275844, us1000bw6u. Id of event: us1000bw6u. Global time and date of event 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 18:02:16 / December 25, 2017 @ 6:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central. Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 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).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 ESE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.5261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.9002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2017-12-25 18:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 19:29:28 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 138 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 ,mb,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 0.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000bw6u Id of event.
Event Code 1000bw6u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80275844,us1000bw6u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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