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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Miramichi in Canada

Posted by admin on April 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.496S, -65.999WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Miramichi in Canada on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005l4n. Event ids that are associated: us20005l4n. The temblor was reported at 03:59:07 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.999 West, latitude 46.496 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/16 / 2016-04-22 06:59:07 / April 22, 2016 @ 6:59 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Miramichi (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Miramichi (c. 18 100 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km SW of Miramichi, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SW of Miramichi, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-22 06:59:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-23 05:32:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 129 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 0.31 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 us20005l4n Id of event.
Event Code 20005l4n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005l4n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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