Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Saint-Pascal in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Saint-Pascal in Canada. Exact location of earthquake, -69.8431° West, 47.6238° North, depth 18.784 km. Global time and date of event 18/12/25 / 2025-12-18 03:19:09 / December 18, 2025 @ 3:19 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.784 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:19:09 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rvlq. Event ids that are associated: us6000rvlq.

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Rivière-du-Loup (c. 18 600 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from La Malbaie (c. 9 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Baie-Saint-Paul (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baie-Saint-Paul, Rivière-du-Loup, La Malbaie (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 has occurred nearby.

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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: 12 km NNW of Saint-Pascal, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.8431° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.6238° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.784 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NNW of Saint-Pascal, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-18 03:19:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-18 03:25:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	138	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.335	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us6000rvlq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rvlq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rvlq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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