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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.5828S, -129.9987WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) strikes 182 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (113 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: us70006qt7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q31tzv, us70006qt7. 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). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 03:36:02 / December 25, 2019 @ 3:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.9987 West, latitude 50.5828 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:36:02 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 182 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.9987° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km 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 2019-12-25 03:36:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-25 03:54:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 611 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 1.869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us70006qt7 Id of event.
Event Code 70006qt7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q31tzv,us70006qt7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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