Minor earthquake 3.22 mag, 32 km ESE of Nelson, Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Nelson in Canada on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.45 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: mb80270704. Unique identifier: mb80270704. Exact location of earthquake, -116.8631667° West, 49.4148333° North, depth 4.45 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/17 / 2017-11-22 06:34:11 / November 22, 2017 @ 6:34 am UTC/GMT. The 3.22-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:34:11 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cranbrook, Trail, Kimberley. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Cranbrook (c. 18 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Nelson (c. 9 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Trail (c. 9 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Castlegar (c. 8 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Kimberley (c. 6 500 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 32 km ESE of Nelson, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.8631667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.4148333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km ESE of Nelson, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-22 06:34:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-22 16:17:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	160	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	mb	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,mb,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.164	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	276	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	mb80270704	Id of event.
Event Code	80270704	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80270704,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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