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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Coquitlam in Canada

Posted by admin on July 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.5121S, -122.4359WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Coquitlam in Canada on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.62 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:42:52 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20006fa0. Ids that are associated to the event: uw61167142, us20006fa0. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 00:42:52 / July 17, 2016 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -122.4359° West, 49.5121° North, depth 1.62 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gibsons, Whistler, Ferndale (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Richmond (c. 182 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 34 km NE of Coquitlam, 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 -122.4359° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.5121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NE of Coquitlam, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-17 00:42:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-28 03:31:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 66 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 164 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 ,uw,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 0.533 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us20006fa0 Id of event.
Event Code 20006fa0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61167142,us20006fa0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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