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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Bella Bella in Canada

Posted by admin on November 22, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6651S, -131.0669WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 210 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (130 miles). Id of earthquake: us100040a5. Event ids that are associated: us100040a5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/11/15 / 2015-11-22 06:43:42 / November 22, 2015 @ 6:43 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:43:42 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -131.0669 West, latitude 51.6651 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 210 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.0669° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km 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 06:43:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 07:28:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 246 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 0.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us100040a5 Id of event.
Event Code 100040a5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040a5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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