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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Masset in Canada


Earthquake location 52.7395S, -132.2577WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 142 km S of Masset, Canada (88 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.95 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/19 / 2019-11-09 18:58:41 / November 9, 2019 @ 6:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Masset in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us600069rt. Event ids that are associated: at00q0pu1u, us600069rt. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:58:41 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -132.2577° West, 52.7395° North, depth 13.95 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 142 km S of Masset, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -132.2577° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.7395° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km S of Masset, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-09 18:58:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-09 19:14:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 272 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 0.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us600069rt Id of event.
Event Code 600069rt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q0pu1u,us600069rt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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