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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 181 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada

Posted by admin on October 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.411S, -128.978WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 181 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (112 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pgzs8e. Id of event: at00pgzs8e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 08:43:26 / October 22, 2018 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:43:26 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -128.978° West, 49.411° North.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 181 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km SW of Port Hardy, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-22 08:43:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 08:53:28 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 312 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.582832 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.199982144 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pgzs8e Id of event.
Event Code 00pgzs8e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pgzs8e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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