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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Port Hardy in Canada

Posted by admin on December 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.5303S, -129.2381WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 130 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (81 miles) on Monday. The temblor was reported at 13:50:17 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -129.2381° West, 50.5303° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us70006qbs. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006qbs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 22:50:17 / December 23, 2019 @ 10:50 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 130 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.2381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5303° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130km 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 22:50:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 23:20:24 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 0 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 259 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 ,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 0.713 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us70006qbs Id of event.
Event Code 70006qbs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006qbs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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