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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Tofino in Canada

Posted by admin on July 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 49.0205S, -128.2873WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 174 km W of Tofino, Canada (108 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 08:20:31 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tofino in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00sgi4i2, us7000mysw. Id of event: us7000mysw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 08:20:31 / July 12, 2024 @ 8:20 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -128.2873° West, 49.0205° North.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 174 km W of Tofino, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.2873° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.0205° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 174 km W 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 2024-07-12 08:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-12 08:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 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 355 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 ,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mysw Id of event.
Event Code 7000mysw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00sgi4i2,us7000mysw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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