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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Rocky Mountain House in Canada


Earthquake location 52.7333S, -114.9441WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Rocky Mountain House in Canada. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jd6z. Id of event: us1000jd6z. The temblor was detected at 03:00:34 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 10:00:34 / March 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -114.9441° West, 52.7333° North.

Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Sylvan Lake (c. 10 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lacombe (c. 10 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ponoka (c. 6 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Rocky Mountain House (c. 6 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Drayton Valley (c. 6 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponoka, Lacombe, Sylvan Lake (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 40 km N of Rocky Mountain House, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.9441° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.7333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km N of Rocky Mountain House, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-10 10:00:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-10 15:41:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 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 ,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 2.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000jd6z Id of event.
Event Code 1000jd6z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jd6z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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