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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Tresboeuf in France


Earthquake location 47.8948S, -1.5206WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tresboeuf in France. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:43:23 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000avqf. Event ids that are associated: us2000avqf. Exact location of event, longitude -1.5206 West, latitude 47.8948 North, depth = 7.47 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/17 / 2017-09-28 01:43:23 / September 28, 2017 @ 1:43 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.47 km (5 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Nantes (c. 277 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Rennes (c. 209 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Laval (c. 50 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Saint-Herblain (c. 46 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rezé (c. 39 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (c. 29 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chalonnes-sur-Loire, Les Sorinières, Avrillé. Close country/countries that might be effected, France (c. 64 768 000 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 nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km ENE of Tresboeuf, France. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -1.5206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.8948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Tresboeuf, France Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-28 01:43:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-28 03:58:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 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 188 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 2.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us2000avqf Id of event.
Event Code 2000avqf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000avqf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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