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Minor earthquake, 3.72 mag has occurred near Hawkesbury in Canada

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hawkesbury in Canada. Exact location of event, longitude -74.5453339 West, latitude 45.4650002 North, depth = 9.21 km. The temblor was detected at 18:00:19 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ld60096481, us20002xst. Id of event: ld60096481. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 22:00:19 / July 15, 2015 @ 10:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.21 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Montréal (c. 3 268 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Laval (c. 376 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Longueuil (c. 229 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Terrebonne (c. 94 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Saint-Laurent (c. 77 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Saint-Léonard (c. 73 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Brossard, Mont-Tremblant, La Prairie (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 15 km SSE of Hawkesbury, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.72 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.5453339° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.4650002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSE of Hawkesbury, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-15 22:00:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-15 22:17:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	4.36	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	213	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ld	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ld,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2887	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	141	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	ld60096481	Id of event.
Event Code	60096481	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ld60096481,us20002xst,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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