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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Dawson City in Canada


Earthquake location 65.3638S, -134.7042WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 268 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada (167 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:21:12 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nql0. Event ids that are associated: us7000nql0. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 11:21:12 / November 8, 2024 @ 11:21 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -134.7042 West, latitude 65.3638 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 268 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -134.7042° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.3638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 268 km ENE of Dawson City, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-08 11:21:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-08 12:04:33 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 4.278 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 259 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us7000nql0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nql0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nql0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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