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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Lincoln in Montana

Posted by admin on February 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.9065S, -112.527WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lincoln in Montana on Friday. Id of earthquake: mb80281719. Event ids that are associated: mb80281719. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.01 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:29:03 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 05:29:03 / February 17, 2018 @ 5:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -112.527 West, latitude 46.9065 North, depth = 12.01 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Helena Valley Southeast, Helena, Helena Valley West Central (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Helena (c. 28 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Helena Valley Southeast (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Helena Valley West Central (c. 7 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 12 km ESE of Lincoln, Montana.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.9065° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2018-02-17 05:29:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-17 15:51:31 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 123 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 mb80281719 Id of event.
Event Code 80281719 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80281719, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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