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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Bella Bella in Canada


Earthquake location 51.2094S, -131.0085WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 226 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (140 miles) on Sunday. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:08:10 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 04:08:10 / July 2, 2018 @ 4:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -131.0085 West, latitude 51.2094 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000g9gn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g9gn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 226 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.0085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 226km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-02 04:08:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 01:35:46 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 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 246 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 ,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 1.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us2000g9gn Id of event.
Event Code 2000g9gn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g9gn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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