<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of the <i>Spokesman-Review </i>at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/jul/06/earthquake-originates-in-western-montana-shakes-wa/?utm_source=custom_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter">http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/jul/06/earthquake-originates-in-western-montana-shakes-wa/?utm_source=custom_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="f2 f1-l serif mt0 mb2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; font-family: georgia, times, serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Earthquake originates in western Montana, shakes Washington and Idaho</h1><p class="mt0 f6 tu gray sans-serif " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'avenir next', avenir, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, ubuntu, roboto, noto, 'segoe ui', arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: 'liga' 0; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 0.875rem; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">UPDATED: Thu., July 6, 2017, 5:52 a.m.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10009757#executive" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;">magnitude 5.8</a> earthquake rattled a wide swath of the Northern Rockies on Wednesday night, rousing people from the Spokane area to Bozeman, Montana.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed the earthquake’s epicenter was located about 9 kilometers southeast of the western Montana town of Lincoln.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were no immediate reports of injuries. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Residents in Lincoln briefly lost power and there was a gas leak in Helena, the National Weather Service in Great Falls said on Twitter. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Independent Record reports (<a href="http://bit.ly/2tjvI12">http://bit.ly/2tjvI12</a> ) that people felt the quake as far away as Bozeman, Idaho, and Great Falls. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ray Anderson, 76, tells The Associated Press that it was the strongest seismic activity he had ever felt while living in Helena, which is about 34 miles away from the quake’s epicenter. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said his wife told him the temblor woke up the dogs. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Musician John Mayer, a part-time Bozeman resident, took to Twitter to marvel at the event. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Wow,” he wrote on Twitter. “Earthquake in Montana.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There have been more than 70 quakes measuring larger than 4.5 in Montana and parts of Wyoming and Idaho since 1925, according to the USGS. The largest quake in state history was magnitude 7.2 in 1959 near west Yellowstone. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Spokesman-Review will update with further information as it becomes available.</i></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>