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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 80 km ESE of Resolute, Canada

Posted by admin on February 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 74.3368S, -92.4872WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 80 km ESE of Resolute, Canada (50 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -92.4872 West, latitude 74.3368 North, depth = 15.85 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ol5z31, us20008ixg. Unique identifier: us20008ixg. Global time and date of event 10/02/17 / 2017-02-10 15:01:49 / February 10, 2017 @ 3:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.85 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Resolute in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 09:01:49 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 80 km ESE of Resolute, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -92.4872° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 74.3368° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km ESE of Resolute, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-10 15:01:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-10 15:23:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 416 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 5.9 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us20008ixg Id of event.
Event Code 20008ixg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ol5z31,us20008ixg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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