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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Montmagny in Canada

Posted by admin on January 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.9007S, -70.773WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Montmagny in Canada on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:23:47 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/01/18 / 2018-01-03 02:23:47 / January 3, 2018 @ 2:23 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000bz7z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bz7z. Exact location of event, longitude -70.773 West, latitude 46.9007 North, depth = 18 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Donnacona, Beauceville, Pont-Rouge (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Québec (c. 528 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Lévis (c. 126 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bellechasse Regional County Municipality (c. 29 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures (c. 17 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from L’Ancienne-Lorette (c. 16 500 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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. 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 was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km WSW of Montmagny, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.9007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Montmagny, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-03 02:23:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 22:47:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 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 131 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000bz7z Id of event.
Event Code 1000bz7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bz7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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