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Strong earthquake, 6 mag has occurred near Port Hardy in Canada

Posted by admin on December 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.5373S, -129.7326WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) strikes 164 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (102 miles) on Monday. The temblor was reported at 11:56:23 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -129.7326° West, 50.5373° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 20:56:23 / December 23, 2019 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006q96. Ids that are associated to the event: at00q2zgtz, ak019ger47o0, us70006q96.

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

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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. 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: 164 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.7326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 164km 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 20:56:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 21:08:09 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,ak,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 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us70006q96 Id of event.
Event Code 70006q96 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2zgtz,ak019ger47o0,us70006q96, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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