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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake strikes near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.3266S, -129.7276WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 168 kilometers (104 miles) from Port Hardy in Canada. The temblor was reported at 23:35:09 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 15.09 km (9 miles). Global time of event 04/03/15 / 2015-03-04 08:35:09 / March 4, 2015 @ 8:35 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -129.7276 West, latitude 50.3266 North, depth 15.09 km, unique identifier, usc000tuv5.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.7276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.3266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 168km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-04 08:35:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-04 08:54:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 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 369 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 ,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.119 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 usc000tuv5 Id of event.
Event Code c000tuv5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nkoiip,usc000tuv5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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