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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Port McNeill in Canada


Earthquake location 51.546S, -130.824WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 282 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada (175 miles) on Monday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:43:28 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 01:43:28 / September 16, 2024 @ 1:43 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port McNeill in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -130.824° West, 51.546° North. Event id: at00sjvu4g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00sjvu4g.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 282 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.824° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282 km WNW 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 2024-09-16 01:43:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 01:51:13 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 385 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.746325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154.799987616 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00sjvu4g Id of event.
Event Code 00sjvu4g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00sjvu4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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