Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Magrath in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Magrath in Canada on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us2000bsz5. Event ids that are associated: mb80270759, us2000bsz5. Exact location of earthquake, -112.8426° West, 49.2204° North, depth 30 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/17 / 2017-11-22 12:45:39 / November 22, 2017 @ 12:45 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:45:39 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taber, Coaldale, Lethbridge. Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Lethbridge (c. 70 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Taber (c. 8 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Coaldale (c. 6 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km S of Magrath, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-112.8426° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.2204° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km S of Magrath, 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 12:45:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-20 13:15:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	168	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	,mb,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	0.5 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000bsz5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bsz5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80270759,us2000bsz5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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