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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.7225S, -129.6852WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 160 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (99 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 23:38:29 / December 23, 2019 @ 11:38 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:38:29 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -129.6852° West, latitude 50.7225° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70006qcr. Ids that are associated to the event: at00q2zoc9, us70006qcr.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 160 km W of Port Hardy, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.6852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.7225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160km 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 23:38:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-24 01:41:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 340 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 0.99 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us70006qcr Id of event.
Event Code 70006qcr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2zoc9,us70006qcr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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