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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Squamish in Canada


Earthquake location 49.8207S, -123.604WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Squamish in Canada. Exact location, longitude -123.604° West, latitude 49.8207° North, depth = 3.544 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/09/24 / 2024-09-12 16:05:29 / September 12, 2024 @ 4:05 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndal. Id of event: us7000ndal. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.544 km (2 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:05:29 / 4:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Nanaimo (c. 84 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from North Vancouver (c. 48 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from West End (c. 44 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from West Vancouver (c. 42 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nanaimo, Parksville, Vancouver (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 34 km WNW of Squamish, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.604° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.8207° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.544 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km WNW of Squamish, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-12 16:05:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-12 16:24:23 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us7000ndal Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndal An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndal, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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