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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 173 km W of Port Hardy, Canada


Earthquake location 50.7225S, -129.8704WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (107 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.8704 West, latitude 50.7225 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:10:55 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 19:10:55 / January 14, 2018 @ 7:10 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjjd. Id of event: us2000cjjd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 173 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.8704° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.7225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km 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 2018-01-14 19:10:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 20:42:41 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 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 284 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 1.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us2000cjjd Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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