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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Evionnaz in Switzerland

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Evionnaz in Switzerland. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/16 / 2016-10-01 23:17:39 / October 1, 2016 @ 11:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 6.87 East, latitude 46.04 North, depth = 2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ukc. Id of event: us10006ukc. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:39 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Switzerland (c. 7 581 000 pop), France (c. 64 768 000 pop), Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Genève (c. 184 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Lausanne (c. 116 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Annecy (c. 49 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Aosta (c. 32 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Thonon-les-Bains (c. 31 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vernier (c. 30 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint-Claude, Villars-sur-Glâne, Frutigen (min 5000 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km WNW of Evionnaz, Switzerland.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	6.87° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.04° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WNW of Evionnaz, Switzerland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-01 23:17:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-02 21:38:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	223	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	1.58 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	us10006ukc	Id of event.
Event Code	10006ukc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006ukc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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