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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Port Hardy in Canada

Posted by admin on December 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.247S, -129.8069WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 235 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (146 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/18 / 2018-12-09 16:20:09 / December 9, 2018 @ 4:20 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00pjh9dl. Unique identifier: at00pjh9dl. The temblor was picked up at 07:20:09 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -129.8069 West, latitude 49.247 North, depth = 11 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 235 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.8069° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km 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 2018-12-09 16:20:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-09 16:28:20 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 416 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 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.846761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.599980992 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 at00pjh9dl Id of event.
Event Code 00pjh9dl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pjh9dl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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