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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Sechelt in Canada

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Sechelt in Canada. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 21:26:33 / February 21, 2025 @ 9:26 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sechelt in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -123.5338° West, latitude 49.6307° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000pfbs. Event ids that are associated: ew1740173210, at00ss1y89, us7000pfbs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:26:33 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Surrey (c. 395 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Ladner (c. 200 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Richmond (c. 182 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Anmore (c. 126 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Coquitlam (c. 114 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aldergrove, Birch Bay, Duncan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NE of Sechelt, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Aldergrove Anmore Birch Bay Burnaby Canada Coquitlam Duncan Ladner Richmond Sechelt Surrey Vancouver

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.5338° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.6307° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 km NE of Sechelt, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-21 21:26:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-21 21:42:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2060	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.7	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	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	924	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	,ew,at,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 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	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pfbs	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pfbs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1740173210,at00ss1y89,us7000pfbs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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