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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 196 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada

Posted by admin on January 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.296S, -130.112WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 196 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada (122 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 16:52:25 / January 6, 2017 @ 4:52 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ojdavd. Id of event: at00ojdavd. Exact location of earthquake, -130.112° West, 50.296° North, depth 11 km. The temblor was reported at 07:52:25 / 7:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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: 196 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.112° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 196km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-06 16:52:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 17:00:43 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 400 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.970904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183.599985312 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 at00ojdavd Id of event.
Event Code 00ojdavd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ojdavd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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