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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Bedford in Canada

Posted by admin on May 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.0866S, -72.9281WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Bedford in Canada. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.9281 West, latitude 45.0866 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009b45. Id of event: us70009b45. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 15:03:40 / May 6, 2020 @ 3:03 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:03:40 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pointe-Claire, Laval, Beauharnois (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Montréal (c. 3 268 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Laval (c. 376 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Longueuil (c. 229 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Saint-Laurent (c. 77 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Saint-Léonard (c. 73 400 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 four 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. 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: 5 km SSE of Bedford, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9281° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.0866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Bedford, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-06 15:03:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 15:28:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 151 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 0.531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us70009b45 Id of event.
Event Code 70009b45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009b45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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