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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Shawville in Canada

Posted by admin on September 10, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.756S, -76.333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Shawville in Canada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/15 / 2015-09-09 19:17:50 / September 9, 2015 @ 7:17 pm. Exact location of event, depth 18 km, -76.333° West, 45.756° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Event id: us20003hns. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003hns. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:17:50 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clarence-Rockland, Petawawa, Carleton Place. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Ottawa (c. 812 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gatineau (c. 242 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Clarence-Rockland (c. 20 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Petawawa (c. 16 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Pembroke (c. 15 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bells Corners (c. 10 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km NE of Shawville, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NE of Shawville, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-09 19:17:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-09 23:38:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.17 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 213 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 0.83 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 us20003hns Id of event.
Event Code 20003hns An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003hns, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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