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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Fort McPherson in Canada


Earthquake location 68.1702S, -136.4659WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 105 km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12862149, us10004rin. Id of event: us10004rin. Exact location of event, longitude -136.4659 West, latitude 68.1702 North, depth = 14.38 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:15:47 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 14:15:47 / February 21, 2016 @ 2:15 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.38 km (9 miles).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 105 km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.4659° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 68.1702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km NW of Fort McPherson, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-21 14:15:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 14:10:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 284 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 ,ak,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 1.104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10004rin Id of event.
Event Code 10004rin An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12862149,us10004rin, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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