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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Campbell River in Canada


Earthquake location 49.9709S, -126.351WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Campbell River in Canada. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: at00ort1m7. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ort1m7. Exact location of earthquake, -126.351° West, 49.9709° North, depth 1 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:22:55 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/06/17 / 2017-06-19 17:22:55 / June 19, 2017 @ 5:22 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Campbell River in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Campbell River (c. 33 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campbell River (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km W of Campbell River, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -126.351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km W of Campbell River, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-19 17:22:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-19 17:34:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 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 285 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5066498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 2.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100.799991936 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ort1m7 Id of event.
Event Code 00ort1m7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ort1m7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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