Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Fort St. John in Canada

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Fort St. John in Canada. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hy6d. Event ids that are associated: us1000hy6d. The temblor was picked up at 18:27:06 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -120.5234° West, 56.1685° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 01:27:06 / November 30, 2018 @ 1:27 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Fort St. John (c. 17 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dawson Creek (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dawson Creek, Fort St. John. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 22 km ESE of Fort St. John, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.5234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.1685° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ESE of Fort St. John, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-30 01:27:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-30 01:50:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	273	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	0.93	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us1000hy6d	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hy6d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hy6d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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