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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Powell River in Canada

Posted by admin on February 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.8709S, -124.3WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 114 km N of Powell River, Canada (71 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 06:40:39 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 17.13 km, -124.3° West, 50.8709° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/02/17 / 2017-02-18 14:40:39 / February 18, 2017 @ 2:40 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Powell River in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008knu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00olkrfu, us20008knu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.13 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 114 km N of Powell River, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.3° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km N of Powell River, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-18 14:40:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-18 15:03:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 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 250 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 ,at,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 1.558 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20008knu Id of event.
Event Code 20008knu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00olkrfu,us20008knu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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