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Light earthquake 4 mag, 236 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada


Earthquake location 51.399S, -131.3219WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 236 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada (147 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000439q. Unique identifier: us1000439q. Global time and date of event 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 07:35:59 / November 24, 2015 @ 7:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -131.3219° West, 51.399° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:35:59 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter).

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 six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. 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: 236 km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.3219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 236km WSW of Bella Bella, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-24 07:35:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-05 13:37:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 246 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000439q Id of event.
Event Code 1000439q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000439q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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