A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Fredericton in Canada. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 22:47:51 / August 27, 2015 @ 10:47 pm. Exact location of event, depth 8.84 km, -66.5639° West, 46.1761° North. Unique identifier: us100035k5. Ids that are associated to the event: us100035k5. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:47:51 / 7:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.84 km (5 miles).
The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Fredericton (c. 52 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Oromocto (c. 9 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oromocto, Fredericton. Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km NNE of Fredericton, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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