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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Cornwall in Canada

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cornwall in Canada on Saturday. Unique identifier: ld60106806. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041uh, ld60106806. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.26 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.7188339 West, latitude 44.9613342 North, depth = 3.26 km. The temblor was reported at 00:16:54 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 05:16:54 / November 28, 2015 @ 5:16 am.

Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Cornwall (c. 48 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (c. 38 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vaudreuil-Dorion (c. 25 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Clarence-Rockland (c. 20 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Kirkland (c. 20 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Beaconsfield (c. 19 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kirkland, Mercier, Beaconsfield (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.7188339° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.9613342° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km SSE of Cornwall, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-28 05:16:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-28 05:29:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	24	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	221	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	,us,ld,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1937	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	ld60106806	Id of event.
Event Code	60106806	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041uh,ld60106806,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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