Light mag. 3.4 earthquake - 8.2 km southwest of La Malbaie, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, 28 Dec 2020 9:19 am (GMT -5) -
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Light magnitude 3.4 earthquake at 13 km depth
28 Dec 15:31 UTC: First to report: NRCAN after 1 hour and 12 minutes.
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Date & time: 28 Dec 2020 14:19:50 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Monday, 28 Dec 2020 9:19 am (GMT -5)
Magnitude: 3.4
Depth: 13.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 47.6144°N / 70.2442°W
(Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada)Nearby towns and cities:
8 km (5 mi) WSW of La Malbaie (Charlevoix-Est, Quebec) (pop: 8,960) --> See nearby quakes!
27 km (17 mi) NE of Baie-Saint-Paul (Charlevoix, Quebec) (pop: 7,290) --> See nearby quakes!
32 km (20 mi) NNW of Ste. Anne de la Pocatière (Quebec) (pop: 4,580) --> See nearby quakes!
35 km (22 mi) WNW of Saint-Pascal (Quebec) (pop: 3,490) --> See nearby quakes!
58 km (36 mi) WSW of Rivière-du-Loup (Quebec) (pop: 18,600) --> See nearby quakes!
108 km (67 mi) SE of Saguenay (Quebec) (pop: 143,700) --> See nearby quakes!
115 km (71 mi) NE of Lévis (Quebec) (pop: 126,400) --> See nearby quakes!
115 km (72 mi) NE of Quebec (pop: 528,600) --> See nearby quakes!
117 km (73 mi) NE of La Haute-Saint-Charles (Quebec) (pop: 74,100) --> See nearby quakes!
484 km (301 mi) ENE of Ottawa (Ontario) (pop: 812,100) --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: NRCAN (Department of Natural Resources Canada)
Estimated released energy: 7.9 x 109 joules (2.21 megawatt hours, equivalent to 1.9 tons of TNT) More info
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| Magnitude | Depth | Location | Source |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY REG., CANADA | EMSC |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
| M 3.4 | 13 km | 8 Km WSW of La Malbaie, QC, Canada | NRCAN |
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Rue des battures, la malbaie Quebec / Light shaking (MMI IV) / 2-5 s : Heard loud noise like a bang or something crashing & felt my chair vibrating up from the floor. I had no idea what it was. Yell’d to my husband “what was that?” He said he thought it was an earthquake | 4 users found this interesting.
St-Hilarion (14.5 km WNW of epicenter) [Map] / Moderate shaking (MMI V) / rattling, vibrating / 20-30 s
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