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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 227 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada


Earthquake location 51.521S, -131.246WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 227 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (141 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 06:02:42 / November 22, 2015 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -131.246 West, latitude 51.521 North, depth = 13 km. The temblor was reported at 21:02:42 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bella Bella in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00ny7csi. Unique identifier: at00ny7csi.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 227 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.246° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.521° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 227km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-22 06:02:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 06:06:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 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 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.04995548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.8 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ny7csi Id of event.
Event Code 00ny7csi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ny7csi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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