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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Baie-Saint-Paul in Canada

Posted by admin on August 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 47.3328S, -70.3849WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul in Canada. Exact location of event, depth 12.11 km, -70.3849° West, 47.3328° North. The temblor was reported at 07:12:47 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.11 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 12:12:47 / August 29, 2019 @ 12:12 pm. Event id: us700059m4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700059m4.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Bellechasse Regional County Municipality (c. 29 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Montmagny (c. 11 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, Montmagny, La Malbaie (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SE of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.3849° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.3328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SE of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-29 12:12:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-29 12:22:42 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 168 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 0.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us700059m4 Id of event.
Event Code 700059m4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700059m4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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