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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Rolfs in Sweden


Earthquake location 65.699S, 23.0237WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Rolfs in Sweden. Exact location of event, longitude 23.0237 East, latitude 65.699 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:22:33 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000f3af. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000f3af. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 07:22:33 / June 27, 2018 @ 7:22 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piteå, Ylitornio, Kemi. Close country/countries that might be effected, Finland (c. 5 244 000 pop), Sweden (c. 9 556 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Luleå (c. 45 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kemi (c. 22 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Piteå (c. 22 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tornio (c. 21 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Boden (c. 18 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Keminmaa (c. 9 000 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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SSW of Rolfs, Sweden. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 23.0237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSW of Rolfs, Sweden Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 07:22:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 12:18:43 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 211 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 3.968 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us1000f3af Id of event.
Event Code 1000f3af An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f3af, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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