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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Ormstown in Canada

Posted by admin on January 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 44.9853S, -73.9749WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ormstown in Canada. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -73.9749° West, 44.9853° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 10:37:59 / January 13, 2020 @ 10:37 am. Unique identifier: us70006z44. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006z44. The temblor was detected at 05:37:59 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Terrebonne, Winooski, Sainte-Julie (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Montréal (c. 3 268 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Laval (c. 376 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Longueuil (c. 229 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Terrebonne (c. 94 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Saint-Laurent (c. 77 400 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 16 km S of Ormstown, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.9749° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.9853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km S of Ormstown, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-13 10:37:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 10:53:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 40 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.2 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 199 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us70006z44 Id of event.
Event Code 70006z44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006z44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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