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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Bella Bella in Canada

Posted by admin on September 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.423S, -131.032WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 217 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (135 miles) on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00odm4a3. Id of event: at00odm4a3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -131.032 West, latitude 51.423 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bella Bella in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/16 / 2016-09-16 19:46:51 / September 16, 2016 @ 7:46 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:46:51 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eleven 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 217 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.423° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 217km 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 2016-09-16 19:46:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-16 19:50:10 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 340 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.963717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172.799986176 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 at00odm4a3 Id of event.
Event Code 00odm4a3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00odm4a3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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