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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Mouilleron-en-Pareds in France

Posted by admin on February 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 46.6751S, -0.799WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Mouilleron-en-Pareds in France. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:08:29 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d2eb. Id of event: us2000d2eb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/02/18 / 2018-02-12 03:08:29 / February 12, 2018 @ 3:08 am. Exact location, longitude -0.799° West, latitude 46.6751° North, depth = 5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, France (c. 64 768 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Nantes (c. 277 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Angers (c. 168 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Poitiers (c. 86 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from La Rochelle (c. 76 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from La Roche-sur-Yon (c. 59 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Niort (c. 54 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Avrillé, Sautron, Couëron.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km E of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -0.799° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.6751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km E of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, France Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-12 03:08:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-14 23:30:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 271 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 2.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d2eb Id of event.
Event Code 2000d2eb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d2eb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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