A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 213 km SSW of Port Hardy, Canada (132 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:36:20 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 06:36:20 / May 10, 2018 @ 6:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -128.8761 West, latitude 49.0313 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000e1t4. Event ids that are associated: us1000e1t4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 213 km SSW of Port Hardy, Canada.
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