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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near La Malbaie in Canada


Earthquake location 47.6108S, -70.1805WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Malbaie in Canada on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hpkz. Id of event: us1000hpkz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 04:12:13 / November 9, 2018 @ 4:12 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.45 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:12:13 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.1805 West, latitude 47.6108 North, depth = 13.45 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Montmagny, Rivière-du-Loup, Baie-Saint-Paul (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Rivière-du-Loup (c. 18 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Montmagny (c. 11 700 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop).

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 nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 5 km SSW of La Malbaie, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.6108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSW of La Malbaie, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-09 04:12:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-09 07:11:23 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 0.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hpkz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hpkz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hpkz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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