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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Mayo in Canada


Earthquake location 65.3082S, -133.2949WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 228 km NNE of Mayo, Canada (142 miles). Global time and date of event 03/10/15 / 2015-10-03 11:08:59 / October 3, 2015 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:08:59 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -133.2949 West, latitude 65.3082 North, depth = 62.6 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11729313. Id of event: ak11729313. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.6 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 228 km NNE of Mayo, Canada. This information 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 -133.2949° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.3082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 228km NNE of Mayo, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-03 11:08:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-13 00:25:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak11729313 Id of event.
Event Code 11729313 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11729313, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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