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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Cache Creek in Canada

Posted by admin on December 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.828S, -121.008WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Cache Creek in Canada. Event id: us20004hiu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004hiu. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/15 / 2015-12-16 09:48:17 / December 16, 2015 @ 9:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.008 West, latitude 50.828 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 01:48:17 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Kamloops (c. 68 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Merritt (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merritt, Kamloops.

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 one 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km E of Cache Creek, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.008° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E of Cache Creek, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-16 09:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-16 22:06:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 179 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.92 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 us20004hiu Id of event.
Event Code 20004hiu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004hiu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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