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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Ucluelet in Canada

Posted by admin on March 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 48.7473333S, -125.5303333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ucluelet in Canada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/18 / 2018-03-25 07:50:29 / March 25, 2018 @ 7:50 am. All ids that are associated to the event: uw61357322. Unique identifier: uw61357322. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.87 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -125.5303333° West, latitude 48.7473333° North, depth = 4.87 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:50:29 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port Alberni (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Port Alberni (c. 21 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km S of Ucluelet, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.5303333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.7473333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S of Ucluelet, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-25 07:50:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-26 20:49:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 133 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network uw The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw, 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 0.1776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 uw61357322 Id of event.
Event Code 61357322 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61357322, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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