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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Dawson City in Canada


Earthquake location 64.8612S, -133.7309WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 288 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada (179 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.66 km (7 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:42 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -133.7309° West, latitude 64.8612° North, depth = 10.66 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/02/21 / 2021-02-10 21:18:42 / February 10, 2021 @ 9:18 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000dgdt. Event ids that are associated: us6000dgdt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 288 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -133.7309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.8612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 288 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-10 21:18:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-11 02:25:15 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 271 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 0.982 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dgdt Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgdt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgdt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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