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Minor earthquake 3.49 mag, 41 km S of Princeton, Canada


Earthquake location 49.0836667S, -120.541WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Princeton in Canada on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: uw61194066. Id of event: uw61194066. The temblor was detected at 17:52:07 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -120.541° West, 49.0836667° North, depth 2.54 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.54 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 00:52:07 / August 15, 2016 @ 12:52 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Penticton (c. 37 700 pop). Close 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 Penticton.

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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 41 km S of Princeton, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.0836667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km S of Princeton, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-15 00:52:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 01:18:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.41 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 188 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 uw61194066 Id of event.
Event Code 61194066 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61194066, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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