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


Earthquake location 49.3519S, -129.186WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 204 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada (127 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.186 West, latitude 49.3519 North, depth = 11 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/24 / 2024-07-11 17:34:23 / July 11, 2024 @ 5:34 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00sggzhb. Unique identifier: at00sggzhb. The temblor was detected at 17:34:23 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port McNeill in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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.

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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: 204 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.186° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.3519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 204 km SW 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 2024-07-11 17:34:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-11 17:39:51 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 369 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.365987 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255.599979552 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 at00sggzhb Id of event.
Event Code 00sggzhb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00sggzhb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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