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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 264 km SE of Resolute, Canada


Earthquake location 72.8017S, -89.7221WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 264 km SE of Resolute, Canada (164 miles). Global time and date of event 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 14:25:43 / November 20, 2019 @ 2:25 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:43 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006aer. Event ids that are associated: at00q19uqv, us70006aer. A tsunami warning has been issued near Resolute in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -89.7221 West, latitude 72.8017 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 264 km SE of Resolute, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -89.7221° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 72.8017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 264km SE 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 2019-11-20 14:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-21 06:37:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 271 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 2.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us70006aer Id of event.
Event Code 70006aer An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q19uqv,us70006aer, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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