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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 34 km NNW of Yarmouth, Canada


Earthquake location 44.1173S, -66.2896WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Yarmouth in Canada on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mvh. Id of event: us10002mvh. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:32:52 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.2896° West, latitude 44.1173° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 18:32:52 / July 1, 2015 @ 6:32 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Yarmouth (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yarmouth (min 5000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km NNW of Yarmouth, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2896° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.1173° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NNW of Yarmouth, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 18:32:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 21:27:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 51 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 195 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 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002mvh Id of event.
Event Code 10002mvh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mvh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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