Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Petawawa in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Petawawa in Canada on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000gbg9. Unique identifier: us2000gbg9. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/18 / 2018-07-19 01:17:16 / July 19, 2018 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.43 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:17:16 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.459 West, latitude 45.8 North, depth = 13.43 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Petawawa (c. 16 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Pembroke (c. 15 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Renfrew (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Renfrew, Pembroke, Petawawa (min 5000 pop).

Each 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 has struck near.

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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: 14 km SW of Petawawa, 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	-77.459° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.8° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SW of Petawawa, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-19 01:17:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-22 23:03:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	129	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	0.192	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us2000gbg9	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gbg9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gbg9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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