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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 49.2821S, -129.3748WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 210 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (130 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: at00phqm2s, us2000i755. Unique identifier: us2000i755. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 20:25:35 / November 5, 2018 @ 8:25 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.3748 West, latitude 49.2821 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:25:35 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 210 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.3748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km 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 2018-11-05 20:25:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-06 00:13:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 285 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 ,at,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 1.578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us2000i755 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i755 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00phqm2s,us2000i755, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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