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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 212 km W of Tofino, Canada


Earthquake location 48.9745S, -128.798WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 212 km W of Tofino, Canada (132 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:48:41 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tofino in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/12/18 / 2018-12-09 17:48:41 / December 9, 2018 @ 5:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -128.798° West, latitude 48.9745° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000i5di. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pjhdh3, us1000i5di.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 212 km W of Tofino, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 48.9745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 212km W of Tofino, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-09 17:48:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-09 18:15:43 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 354 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 1.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us1000i5di Id of event.
Event Code 1000i5di An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pjhdh3,us1000i5di, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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