Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Saguenay in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Saguenay in Canada. Exact location of earthquake, -71.0145° West, 48.2838° North, depth 18.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/19 / 2019-11-15 04:14:48 / November 15, 2019 @ 4:14 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006bv5. Id of event: us60006bv5. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.52 km (12 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:48 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Saguenay (c. 143 700 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Jonquière (c. 54 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Alma (c. 29 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alma, Jonquière, Saguenay.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SSE of Saguenay, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.0145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.2838° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSE of Saguenay, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-11-15 04:14:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-15 05:11:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	139	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	0.355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	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	us60006bv5	Id of event.
Event Code	60006bv5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60006bv5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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