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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Riviere-du-Loup in Canada


Earthquake location 47.8458S, -69.8734WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Riviere-du-Loup in Canada. Exact location of event, depth 13.54 km, -69.8734° West, 47.8458° North. Unique identifier: us700062gz. Ids that are associated to the event: us700062gz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/19 / 2019-11-02 13:43:07 / November 2, 2019 @ 1:43 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:43:07 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.54 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baie-Saint-Paul, La Malbaie, Rivière-du-Loup (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Rivière-du-Loup (c. 18 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km W of Riviere-du-Loup, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.8734° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.8458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km W of Riviere-du-Loup, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-02 13:43:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 05:44:05 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 129 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 0.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us700062gz Id of event.
Event Code 700062gz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062gz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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