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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Masset in Canada

Posted by admin on March 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.766S, -132.881WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 148 km SSW of Masset, Canada (92 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1 km, -132.881° West, 52.766° North. All ids that are associated to the event: at00onl8nx. Unique identifier: at00onl8nx. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:59:57 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Masset in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/17 / 2017-03-29 17:59:57 / March 29, 2017 @ 5:59 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 148 km SSW of Masset, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -132.881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 148km SSW of Masset, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-29 17:59:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-29 18:03:56 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 271 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5003616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241.199980704 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 at00onl8nx Id of event.
Event Code 00onl8nx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00onl8nx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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