Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Port Hardy in Canada

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 181 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (112 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 16:44:12 / December 23, 2019 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:12 / 7:44 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). Event id: at00q2z55o. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q2z55o. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.959 West, latitude 50.494 North, depth = 11 km.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 181 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-129.959° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.494° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	181km W 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	2019-12-23 16:44:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-23 16:49:47	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	400	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.048159	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147.599988192	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	at00q2z55o	Id of event.
Event Code	00q2z55o	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00q2z55o,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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