Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Beaupre in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Beaupre in Canada on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 16.48 km, -70.7948° West, 46.8969° North. The temblor was detected at 10:42:26 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.48 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 15:42:26 / January 4, 2018 @ 3:42 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c0wi. Unique identifier: us1000c0wi.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Québec (c. 528 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Lévis (c. 126 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bellechasse Regional County Municipality (c. 29 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures (c. 17 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from L’Ancienne-Lorette (c. 16 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Beauceville, Donnacona, Pont-Rouge (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km SSE of Beaupre, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.7948° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.8969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km SSE of Beaupre, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-04 15:42:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-04 22:15:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	121	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	0.726	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us1000c0wi	Id of event.
Event Code	1000c0wi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000c0wi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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