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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Red Deer in Canada


Earthquake location 52.2924S, -113.9428WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Red Deer in Canada on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:55:16 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 12:55:16 / March 4, 2019 @ 12:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jabg. Id of event: us1000jabg. Exact location of event, longitude -113.9428 West, latitude 52.2924 North, depth = 5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stettler, Rocky Mountain House, Olds (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Red Deer (c. 73 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Sylvan Lake (c. 10 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Lacombe (c. 10 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Olds (c. 6 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Ponoka (c. 6 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km WNW of Red Deer, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.9428° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2924° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WNW of Red Deer, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-04 12:55:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-05 12:13:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 180 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000jabg Id of event.
Event Code 1000jabg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jabg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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