Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Baie-Saint-Paul in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul in Canada. Exact location of event, depth 12.11 km, -70.3849° West, 47.3328° North. The temblor was reported at 07:12:47 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.11 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/08/19 / 2019-08-29 12:12:47 / August 29, 2019 @ 12:12 pm. Event id: us700059m4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700059m4.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Bellechasse Regional County Municipality (c. 29 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Montmagny (c. 11 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, Montmagny, La Malbaie (min 5000 pop).

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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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: 14 km SE of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.3849° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.3328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SE of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-29 12:12:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-29 12:22:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	168	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	0.219	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us700059m4	Id of event.
Event Code	700059m4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700059m4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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