Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Tofino in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 235 km SW of Tofino, Canada (146 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:14:07 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c72c. Unique identifier: us6000c72c. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/20 / 2020-10-05 13:14:07 / October 5, 2020 @ 1:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -128.5121 West, latitude 47.9253 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 235 km SW of Tofino, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-128.5121° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	47.9253° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	235 km SW of Tofino, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-05 13:14:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-13 19:12:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	222	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	2.267	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us6000c72c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c72c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c72c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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