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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Papineauville in Canada

Posted by admin on March 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.595S, -75.028WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Papineauville in Canada. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.028 West, latitude 45.595 North, depth = 18 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/03/16 / 2016-03-22 02:59:58 / March 22, 2016 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005bmy. Id of event: us20005bmy. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:59:58 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mont-Tremblant, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Massena. Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ottawa (c. 812 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Gatineau (c. 242 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cornwall (c. 48 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Mirabel (c. 34 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Clarence-Rockland (c. 20 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.028° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW of Papineauville, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-22 02:59:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-22 21:29:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 122 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 1.15 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005bmy Id of event.
Event Code 20005bmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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