Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Mayo in Canada

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 179 km NNE of Mayo, Canada (111 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -134.1842 West, latitude 65.0223 North, depth = 14.31 km. Global time and date of event 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 15:14:26 / May 10, 2017 @ 3:14 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10008r4v. Event ids that are associated: ak16017257, us10008r4v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.31 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:14:26 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 179 km NNE of Mayo, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-134.1842° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	65.0223° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	179km NNE of Mayo, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-10 15:14:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-10 21:20:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	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	298	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	,ak,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	1.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10008r4v	Id of event.
Event Code	10008r4v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16017257,us10008r4v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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