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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 49.2421S, -129.3988WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 215 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada (134 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:43:22 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.3988 West, latitude 49.2421 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00pgzs8e, us1000hfis. Id of event: us1000hfis. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 08:43:22 / October 22, 2018 @ 8:43 am UTC/GMT.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 215 km SW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.3988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.2421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 215km SW 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 2018-10-22 08:43:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 11:15:35 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 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 298 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 1.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us1000hfis Id of event.
Event Code 1000hfis An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00pgzs8e,us1000hfis, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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