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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Elkford in Canada

Posted by admin on September 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.758S, -114.841WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Elkford in Canada. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.2 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006tpz. Event ids that are associated: us10006tpz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 03:19:17 / September 29, 2016 @ 3:19 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.841 West, latitude 49.758 North, depth = 1.2 km. The temblor was reported at 21:19:17 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cranbrook, Fernie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Cranbrook (c. 18 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Fernie (c. 5 000 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 32 km S of Elkford, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.841° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km S of Elkford, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-29 03:19:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-29 20:54:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 37 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 175 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 0.88 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006tpz Id of event.
Event Code 10006tpz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006tpz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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