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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 49.145S, -129.6279WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 234 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (145 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 01/11/18 / 2018-11-01 04:22:22 / November 1, 2018 @ 4:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:22:22 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -129.6279° West, 49.145° North, depth 11 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00phhyta. Unique identifier: at00phhyta. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 234 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.6279° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 234km 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 2018-11-01 04:22:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-01 04:29:07 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 340 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 81 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.858614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143.99998848 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00phhyta Id of event.
Event Code 00phhyta An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00phhyta, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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