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Minor earthquake, 3.36 mag has occurred near Lincoln in Montana


Earthquake location 46.8968333S, -113.161WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Lincoln in Montana. The temblor was reported at 08:32:05 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -113.161 West, latitude 46.8968333 North, depth = 11.19 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.19 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: mb80338419. Event ids that are associated: mb80338419. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/03/19 / 2019-03-21 15:32:05 / March 21, 2019 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Missoula (c. 66 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Orchard Homes (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orchard Homes, Missoula. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 37 km W of Lincoln, Montana.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.161° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.8968333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km W 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 2019-03-21 15:32:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-21 15:49:03 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 174 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 mb80338419 Id of event.
Event Code 80338419 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80338419, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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