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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Sept-Iles in Canada

Posted by admin on November 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.0284S, -66.067WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Sept-Iles in Canada. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 18:07:04 / November 17, 2017 @ 6:07 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.77 km (10 miles). Unique identifier: us2000brky. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000brky. The temblor was picked up at 13:07:04 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.067° West, latitude 50.0284° North, depth = 16.77 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Cartier, Sept-Îles (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Sept-Îles (c. 22 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Port-Cartier (c. 5 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SE of Sept-Iles, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.0284° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SE of Sept-Iles, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-17 18:07:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-19 22:30:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 178 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 2.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us2000brky Id of event.
Event Code 2000brky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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