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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Tofino in Canada

Posted by admin on May 6, 2016 1 Comment

Earthquake location 47.6557S, -128.6578WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 263 km SW of Tofino, Canada (163 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 06/05/16 / 2016-05-06 22:06:30 / May 6, 2016 @ 10:06 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005efr. Unique identifier: us10005efr. Exact location of event, longitude -128.6578 West, latitude 47.6557 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:06:30 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 263 km SW of Tofino, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.6578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.6557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 263km 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 2016-05-06 22:06:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-06 23:22:02 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 178 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 2.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us10005efr Id of event.
Event Code 10005efr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005efr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Karin Kolrud

    We are prepared for something big

    May 6, 2016
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