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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.3153S, -130.0769WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 193 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada (120 miles) on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -130.0769° West, 50.3153° North, depth 8.34 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.34 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:26:58 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70003adv. Ids that are associated to the event: at00pqdq51, us70003adv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 20:26:58 / April 22, 2019 @ 8:26 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 193 km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.0769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.3153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km 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 20:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 23:56:28 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 369 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 1.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003adv Id of event.
Event Code 70003adv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pqdq51,us70003adv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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