A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Miramichi in Canada. Exact location of event, longitude -65.6862 West, latitude 46.9642 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jbuc. Unique identifier: us1000jbuc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 03:17:54 / March 7, 2019 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:17:54 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bathurst, Miramichi. Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Miramichi (c. 18 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bathurst (c. 12 700 pop).
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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 17 km WSW of Miramichi, Canada.
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