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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Miramichi in Canada

Posted by admin on November 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 47.12S, -65.73WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Miramichi in Canada. The temblor was detected at 17:49:23 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.73° West, latitude 47.12° North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/16 / 2016-11-01 20:49:23 / November 1, 2016 @ 8:49 pm. Unique identifier: us100073mr. Ids that are associated to the event: us100073mr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bathurst, Miramichi (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Miramichi (c. 18 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bathurst (c. 12 700 pop).

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. 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.

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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. 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: 23 km WNW of Miramichi, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.73° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.12° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW 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 2016-11-01 20:49:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-04 05:22:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 148 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 0.62 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 us100073mr Id of event.
Event Code 100073mr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100073mr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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