Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 37 km ESE of Nelson, Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Nelson in Canada on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 14:14:29 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.64 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -116.7767° West, 49.4203° North, depth 14.64 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/02/20 / 2020-02-15 21:14:29 / February 15, 2020 @ 9:14 pm. Id of earthquake: us70007r08. Event ids that are associated: mb80381954, us70007r08.

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trail, Cranbrook, Castlegar (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Cranbrook (c. 18 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Nelson (c. 9 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Trail (c. 9 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Castlegar (c. 8 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kimberley (c. 6 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 37 km ESE of Nelson, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7767° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.4203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km ESE of Nelson, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-15 21:14:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-15 23:46:31	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	158	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	,mb,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	1.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us70007r08	Id of event.
Event Code	70007r08	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,mb80381954,us70007r08,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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