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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Riviere-Rouge in Canada


Earthquake location 46.312S, -75.079WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Riviere-Rouge in Canada. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002vw0. Unique identifier: us20002vw0. Exact location of earthquake, -75.079° West, 46.312° North, depth 18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/07/15 / 2015-07-07 09:46:30 / July 7, 2015 @ 9:46 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:46:30 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Mont-Laurier, Mont-Tremblant (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Mont-Laurier (c. 13 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mont-Tremblant (c. 8 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (c. 5 700 pop).

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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 20 km SW of Riviere-Rouge, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.079° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SW of Riviere-Rouge, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-07 09:46:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-07 22:17:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 158 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20002vw0 Id of event.
Event Code 20002vw0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002vw0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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