Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Sechelt in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Sechelt in Canada on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q4ay. Id of event: us6000q4ay. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -123.6375° West, latitude 49.698° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/25 / 2025-04-05 20:45:43 / April 5, 2025 @ 8:45 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:45:43 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was New Westminster, Port Moody, Anmore (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Vancouver (c. 1 838 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Burnaby (c. 202 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Richmond (c. 182 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Anmore (c. 126 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Nanaimo (c. 84 900 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km NNE of Sechelt, Canada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-123.6375° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.698° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km NNE 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	2025-04-05 20:45:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-20 01:52:13	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	121	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.056	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000q4ay	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q4ay	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q4ay,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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