Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Petawawa in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Petawawa in Canada. Unique identifier: us10005hgh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005hgh. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.85 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -77.3692° West, 45.9301° North, depth 16.85 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 21:29:56 / May 14, 2016 @ 9:29 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 17:29:56 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 8 km (5 miles) from Petawawa (c. 16 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Pembroke (c. 15 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Renfrew (c. 8 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Renfrew, Pembroke, Petawawa (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 4 km NW of Petawawa, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.3692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.9301° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.85 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NW of Petawawa, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-14 21:29:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-14 21:57:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	140	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	1.423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	126	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	us10005hgh	Id of event.
Event Code	10005hgh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005hgh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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