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Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Cardston in Canada


Earthquake location 49.111S, -112.8425WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Cardston in Canada on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/19 / 2019-05-20 21:22:05 / May 20, 2019 @ 9:22 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: mb80344784. Unique identifier: mb80344784. Exact location of event, depth 13.96 km, -112.8425° West, 49.111° North. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:22:05 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 13.96 km (9 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coaldale, Lethbridge (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Lethbridge (c. 70 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Coaldale (c. 6 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km ESE of Cardston, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -112.8425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.111° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ESE of Cardston, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-20 21:22:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-20 21:52:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 130 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network mb The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,mb, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 mb80344784 Id of event.
Event Code 80344784 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,mb80344784, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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