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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Abbotsford in Canada


Earthquake location 49.0250015S, -122.1676636WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Abbotsford in Canada on Sunday. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:45:00 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: uw61037322. Event ids that are associated: uw61037322. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 07:45:00 / July 5, 2015 @ 7:45 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.87 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -122.1676636 West, latitude 49.0250015 North, depth = 10.87 km.

Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was West End, Vancouver, North Vancouver. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Richmond (c. 182 000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km ESE of Abbotsford, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.1676636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.0250015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE of Abbotsford, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-05 07:45:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-05 07:49:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 automatic 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 133 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06052 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID uw61037322 Id of event.
Event Code 61037322 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61037322, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

3 Comments

  1. Shirlie

    I didn’t feel rumbling — it sounded like an explosion.

  2. Karen

    Yes felt it like something dropped and the building shook a little.

  3. Heather

    My entire house shook.

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