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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Norrsundet in Sweden


Earthquake location 60.8498S, 17.1682WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Norrsundet in Sweden. Id of earthquake: us2000ixjc. Event ids that are associated: us2000ixjc. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 21:22:26 / December 25, 2018 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:22:26 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 17.1682° East, 60.8498° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bollnäs, Tierp, Hofors. Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (12 miles) from Gävle (c. 68 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sandviken (c. 22 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bollnäs (c. 12 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Söderhamn (c. 12 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Hofors (c. 7 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Sweden (c. 9 556 000 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km S of Norrsundet, Sweden.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.1682° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.8498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Norrsundet, Sweden Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-25 21:22:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-25 23:07:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 148 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 2.671 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us2000ixjc Id of event.
Event Code 2000ixjc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ixjc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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