Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Port Hardy in Canada

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 191 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (119 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -130.1217 West, latitude 50.6369 North, depth = 12.23 km. The temblor was reported at 08:24:35 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 17:24:35 / July 31, 2015 @ 5:24 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.23 km (8 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002wxw. Id of event: us10002wxw.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 191 km W of Port Hardy, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-130.1217° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.6369° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	191km W of Port Hardy, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-31 17:24:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-31 18:33:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	271	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	1.996	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10002wxw	Id of event.
Event Code	10002wxw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002wxw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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