Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Tofino in Canada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 280 km SW of Tofino, Canada (174 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/16 / 2016-02-03 14:55:37 / February 3, 2016 @ 2:55 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -128.8692° West, latitude 47.5826° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 05:55:37 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10004sut. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004sut.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 280 km SW of Tofino, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-128.8692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.5826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	280km SW of Tofino, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-03 14:55:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-26 06:59:03	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	211	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	2.792	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	262	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10004sut	Id of event.
Event Code	10004sut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004sut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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