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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 49.1358S, -128.8723WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 202 km SSW of Port Hardy, Canada (126 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 22:13:08 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -128.8723° West, 49.1358° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 07:13:08 / October 22, 2018 @ 7:13 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hfhp. Id of event: us1000hfhp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 202 km SSW of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -128.8723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.1358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 202km SSW 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 07:13:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 09:19:08 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 1.58 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us1000hfhp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hfhp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hfhp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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