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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.5466S, -129.7652WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 166 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (103 miles). Event id: us70006q6p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q2z55o, us70006q6p. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 16:44:13 / December 23, 2019 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:44:13 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -129.7652° West, 50.5466° North.

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

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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: 166 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.7652° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166km 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 16:44:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 17:12:20 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 416 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 1.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006q6p Id of event.
Event Code 70006q6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2z55o,us70006q6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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