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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Grande Cache in Canada


Earthquake location 54.3779S, -118.4885WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Grande Cache in Canada on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us7000peye. Event ids that are associated: us7000peye. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/02/25 / 2025-02-20 15:41:05 / February 20, 2025 @ 3:41 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -118.4885 West, latitude 54.3779 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:41:05 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Grande Prairie (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Grande Prairie (c. 41 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 69 km NE of Grande Cache, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4885° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km NE of Grande Cache, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-20 15:41:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-20 16:47:34 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 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 340 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 83 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.629 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us7000peye Id of event.
Event Code 7000peye An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000peye, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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