Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Mascouche in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mascouche in Canada. Global time and date of event 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 07:21:04 / March 29, 2020 @ 7:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -73.5734° West, latitude 45.8105° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70008i6u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008i6u. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:21:04 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Montréal (c. 3 268 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Laval (c. 376 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Longueuil (c. 229 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Terrebonne (c. 94 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Saint-Laurent (c. 77 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Acton Vale, Granby, Les Coteaux (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 7 km NNE of Mascouche, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.5734° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.8105° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNE of Mascouche, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-29 07:21:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-29 07:37:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	79	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4	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	179	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	0.312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us70008i6u	Id of event.
Event Code	70008i6u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008i6u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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