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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Pierreville in Canada

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Pierreville in Canada on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/09/24 / 2024-09-01 09:43:37 / September 1, 2024 @ 9:43 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:43:37 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000np1d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000np1d. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.8106 West, latitude 45.9997 North, depth = 9.722 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.722 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lac-Brome, Côte-Saint-Luc, Montréal-Ouest (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Montréal (c. 3 268 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Laval (c. 376 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Longueuil (c. 229 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Trois-Rivières (c. 119 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Terrebonne (c. 94 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Saint-Laurent (c. 77 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km S of Pierreville, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.8106° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.9997° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.722 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km S of Pierreville, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-01 09:43:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-01 10:05:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	26	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.443	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	257	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.23	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000np1d	Id of event.
Event Code	6000np1d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000np1d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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