Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 196 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada (122 miles) on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 21:44:45 / April 22, 2019 @ 9:44 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:44:45 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003afb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003afb. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -130.1162° West, latitude 50.3035° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 196 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-130.1162° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.3035° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	196km WSW 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	2019-04-22 21:44:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-22 22:04:26	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	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	416	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	2.948	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70003afb	Id of event.
Event Code	70003afb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003afb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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