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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Victoria in Canada


Earthquake location 48.644S, -123.335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Victoria in Canada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -123.335 West, latitude 48.644 North, depth = 42 km. Event id: at00o05ult. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o05ult. The temblor was picked up at 23:39:29 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Victoria in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 07:39:29 / December 30, 2015 @ 7:39 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tulalip, Sechelt, Abbotsford (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Victoria (c. 289 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Richmond (c. 182 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Abbotsford (c. 151 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km N of Victoria, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -123.335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km N of Victoria, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-30 07:39:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-30 07:42:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 354 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07815343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 at00o05ult Id of event.
Event Code 00o05ult An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o05ult, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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