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Strong earthquake 6 mag, 175 km W of Port Hardy, Canada

Posted by admin on December 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.655S, -129.9051WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 175 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (109 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00q2zdqx, us70006q8n. Unique identifier: us70006q8n. Exact location, longitude -129.9051° West, latitude 50.655° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:49:43 / 10:49 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). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 19:49:43 / December 23, 2019 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 175 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.9051° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km 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 19:49:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 20:02:16 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 554 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 1.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us70006q8n Id of event.
Event Code 70006q8n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2zdqx,us70006q8n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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