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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Bella Bella in Canada


Earthquake location 51.7879S, -130.689WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 181 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (112 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bella Bella in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:14:01 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -130.689° West, 51.7879° North. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ny92fd. Unique identifier: at00ny92fd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 04:14:01 / November 23, 2015 @ 4:14 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 181 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km 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 2015-11-23 04:14:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-23 04:18:11 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 246 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.56576354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176.4 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 at00ny92fd Id of event.
Event Code 00ny92fd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ny92fd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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