Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Tofino in Canada

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 149 km WSW of Tofino, Canada (93 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: at00sg3wgy. Unique identifier: at00sg3wgy. The epicenter was at a depth of 39 km (24 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/24 / 2024-07-04 16:00:34 / July 4, 2024 @ 4:00 pm. Exact location of event, depth 39 km, -127.889° West, 48.833° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tofino in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:00:34 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 149 km WSW of Tofino, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.889° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	149 km WSW 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	2024-07-04 16:00:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-04 16:07:43	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	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	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.38323	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	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	at00sg3wgy	Id of event.
Event Code	00sg3wgy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sg3wgy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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