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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Lumijoki in Finland


Earthquake location 64.8469S, 25.2949WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lumijoki in Finland on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c1vm. Id of event: us2000c1vm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:32:12 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/17 / 2017-12-07 22:32:12 / December 7, 2017 @ 10:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 25.2949 East, latitude 64.8469 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Oulu (c. 128 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Raahe (c. 22 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Haukipudas (c. 17 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Kempele (c. 14 300 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Kiiminki (c. 12 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Oulunsalo (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Finland (c. 5 244 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haapavesi, Oulainen, Ii (min 5000 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km ENE of Lumijoki, Finland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 25.2949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.8469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ENE of Lumijoki, Finland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-07 22:32:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-07 22:56:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 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 192 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 3.435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c1vm Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1vm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c1vm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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