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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Grande Prairie in Canada


Earthquake location 54.8821S, -118.737WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Grande Prairie in Canada. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nn0c. Id of event: us7000nn0c. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 24/10/24 / 2024-10-24 21:13:20 / October 24, 2024 @ 9:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:13:20 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.737 West, latitude 54.8821 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Grande Prairie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Grande Prairie (c. 41 500 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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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: 31 km S of Grande Prairie, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.737° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km S of Grande Prairie, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-24 21:13:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-25 01:07:03 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 4.894 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 326 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us7000nn0c Id of event.
Event Code 7000nn0c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nn0c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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