Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada

A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 223 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (139 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -129.6725 West, latitude 49.3142 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:22:48 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 06:22:48 / October 22, 2018 @ 6:22 am. Unique identifier: us1000hfh3. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hfh3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 223 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-129.6725° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.3142° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	223km 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 06:22:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-22 06:53:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.83	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	650	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	1.658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000hfh3	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hfh3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hfh3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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