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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Val-des-Monts in Canada

Posted by admin on March 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 45.8756S, -75.5597WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Val-des-Monts in Canada on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 20:24:30 / February 24, 2016 @ 8:24 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005a33. Id of event: us20005a33. Exact location, longitude -75.5597° West, latitude 45.8756° North, depth = 18 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:24:30 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Ottawa (c. 812 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Gatineau (c. 242 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Clarence-Rockland (c. 20 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mont-Laurier (c. 13 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bells Corners (c. 10 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mont-Laurier, Bells Corners, Ottawa.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km NNE of Val-des-Monts, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.5597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 45.8756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NNE of Val-des-Monts, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-24 20:24:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-16 03:03:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 121 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 0.73 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 us20005a33 Id of event.
Event Code 20005a33 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a33, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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