Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Port McNeill in Canada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 206 km WSW of Port McNeill, Canada (128 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000mctr. Event ids that are associated: us7000mctr. Exact location of event, longitude -129.9458 West, latitude 50.244 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:06:04 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/24 / 2024-04-18 06:06:04 / April 18, 2024 @ 6:06 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 206 km WSW of Port McNeill, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-129.9458° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.244° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	206 km WSW of Port McNeill, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-18 06:06:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-04 07:25:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	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	370	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.225	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us7000mctr	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mctr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mctr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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