Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Salmo in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Salmo in Canada. Exact location of event, longitude -117.1031667 West, latitude 49.3495 North, depth = 2.28 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.28 km (1 miles). The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:09:16 / 4:09 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/15 / 2015-12-31 12:09:16 / December 31, 2015 @ 12:09 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61115271. Id of event: uw61115271.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trail, Castlegar, Nelson (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Nelson (c. 9 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Trail (c. 9 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Castlegar (c. 8 700 pop). 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 has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km NE of Salmo, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1031667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.3495° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km NE of Salmo, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-31 12:09:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-31 16:17:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	153	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uw	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uw,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	271	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	uw61115271	Id of event.
Event Code	61115271	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw61115271,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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