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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada

Posted by admin on September 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.884S, -129.91WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 176 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (109 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 13:49:00 / September 24, 2015 @ 1:49 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:49:00 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00nv6p1o. Unique identifier: at00nv6p1o. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -129.91° West, 50.884° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 176 km W of Port Hardy, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.91° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176km W 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 2015-09-24 13:49:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 13:55:53 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 482 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.58013658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165.6 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00nv6p1o Id of event.
Event Code 00nv6p1o An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nv6p1o, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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