Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Inuvik in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km WSW of Inuvik, Canada (68 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 03:57:06 / August 14, 2024 @ 3:57 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak024afh4bqb, us6000njzs. Id of event: us6000njzs. Exact location of earthquake, -136.3126° West, 68.1507° North, depth 10.334 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:57:06 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.334 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 109 km WSW of Inuvik, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-136.3126° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	68.1507° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.334 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109 km WSW of Inuvik, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-14 03:57:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-16 01:23:27	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	3.382	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	211	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	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136	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	us6000njzs	Id of event.
Event Code	6000njzs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak024afh4bqb,us6000njzs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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