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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Mont-Tremblant in Canada


Earthquake location 46.18S, -74.75WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Mont-Tremblant in Canada. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 11:08:55 / October 19, 2017 @ 11:08 am. The temblor was detected at 06:08:55 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000auge. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000auge. Exact location, longitude -74.75° West, latitude 46.18° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mirabel, Saint-Jérôme, Mont-Laurier. The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Saint-Jérôme (c. 54 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mirabel (c. 34 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mont-Laurier (c. 13 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawkesbury (c. 12 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Sainte-Adèle (c. 10 600 pop). Nearby 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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: 9 km W of Mont-Tremblant, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.75° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.18° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Mont-Tremblant, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-19 11:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 06:02:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 1.11 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 us1000auge Id of event.
Event Code 1000auge An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000auge, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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