Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near La Malbaie in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Malbaie in Canada. Event id: us6000bejz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bejz. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.14 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/20 / 2020-08-14 06:59:09 / August 14, 2020 @ 6:59 am. Exact location of event, depth 12.14 km, -70.2221° West, 47.6123° North. The temblor was reported at 06:59:09 / 6:59 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Rivière-du-Loup (c. 18 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Montmagny (c. 11 700 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Montmagny, Rivière-du-Loup, Baie-Saint-Paul (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SW of La Malbaie, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.2221° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.6123° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SW of La Malbaie, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-14 06:59:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-14 07:18:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	129	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	0.094	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us6000bejz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bejz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bejz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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