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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 7 km WSW of Surte, Sweden


Earthquake location 57.7862S, 11.9012WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Surte in Sweden. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002w87. Unique identifier: us10002w87. The temblor was reported at 21:46:03 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 11.9012 East, latitude 57.7862 North, depth = 13.93 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 19:46:03 / July 29, 2015 @ 7:46 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.93 km (9 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Varberg, Skagen, Vänersborg (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Sweden (c. 9 556 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Göteborg (c. 504 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Borås (c. 63 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mölndal (c. 59 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Trollhättan (c. 44 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Uddevalla (c. 30 300 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 has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WSW of Surte, Sweden. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 11.9012° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.7862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WSW of Surte, Sweden Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 19:46:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 22:27:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 183 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 2.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us10002w87 Id of event.
Event Code 10002w87 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002w87, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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