Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Evolène in Switzerland

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Evolène in Switzerland. The temblor was picked up at 21:25:57 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.943 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 21:25:57 / May 9, 2024 @ 9:25 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000mxke. Event ids that are associated: us6000mxke. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 7.4068 East, latitude 46.0477 North, depth = 10.943 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Switzerland (c. 7 581 000 pop), France (c. 64 768 000 pop), Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gravellona Toce, Thun, Omegna. Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Lausanne (c. 116 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Biella (c. 43 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Thun (c. 42 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Aosta (c. 32 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Thonon-les-Bains (c. 31 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 was reported 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: 10 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	7.4068° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	46.0477° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.943 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-09 21:25:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-12 13:35:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	159	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.324	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us6000mxke	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mxke	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mxke,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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