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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.494S, -129.959WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 181 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (112 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 16:44:12 / December 23, 2019 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:12 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: at00q2z55o. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q2z55o. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -129.959 West, latitude 50.494 North, depth = 11 km.

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 181 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.959° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 181km 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 2019-12-23 16:44:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 16:49:47 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 400 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.048159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147.599988192 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 at00q2z55o Id of event.
Event Code 00q2z55o An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2z55o, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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