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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Fort St. John in Canada

Posted by admin on October 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.4338S, -121.7118WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Fort St. John in Canada. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmh8. Unique identifier: us7000nmh8. Exact location of event, longitude -121.7118 West, latitude 56.4338 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 12:09:30 / October 4, 2024 @ 12:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:09:30 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort St. John (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Fort St. John (c. 17 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 56 km WNW of Fort St. John, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.7118° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.4338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km WNW of Fort St. John, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-04 12:09:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-22 20:04:51 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 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 222 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us7000nmh8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmh8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmh8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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