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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 41 km SW of Digby, Canada

Posted by admin on December 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.33S, -66.1WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Digby in Canada on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 10:40:21 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 14:40:21 / December 13, 2016 @ 2:40 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.1 West, latitude 44.33 North, depth = 18 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200080m1. Id of event: us200080m1.

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Yarmouth (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yarmouth (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km SW of Digby, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.33° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Digby, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-13 14:40:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-14 02:02:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 139 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 0.25 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 us200080m1 Id of event.
Event Code 200080m1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200080m1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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