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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada

Posted by admin on October 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.7834S, -130.0026WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 182 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (113 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -130.0026° West, latitude 50.7834° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:38 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nwn9kt, us10003qur. Id of event: us10003qur. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/10/15 / 2015-10-22 23:07:38 / October 22, 2015 @ 11:07 pm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 182 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.0026° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.7834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km 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 2015-10-22 23:07:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-22 23:36:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 1 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 312 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 ,at,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 1.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us10003qur Id of event.
Event Code 10003qur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nwn9kt,us10003qur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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