Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Oliver in Canada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Oliver in Canada on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -119.252° West, 49.1703° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/16 / 2016-09-10 16:16:31 / September 10, 2016 @ 4:16 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:16:31 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006nlu. Id of event: us10006nlu.

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kelowna, West Kelowna, Summerland (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Kelowna (c. 125 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Penticton (c. 37 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from West Kelowna (c. 28 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Summerland (c. 6 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km E of Oliver, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.252° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	49.1703° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km E of Oliver, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-10 16:16:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-10 16:46:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	78	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	302	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	0.814	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us10006nlu	Id of event.
Event Code	10006nlu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006nlu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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