A 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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