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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Port Hardy in Canada


Earthquake location 50.573S, -130.001WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported 183 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (114 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Hardy in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q31tzv. Id of event: at00q31tzv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -130.001 West, latitude 50.573 North, depth = 1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 03:35:55 / December 25, 2019 @ 3:35 am. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:55 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 183 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -130.001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 183km 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 2019-12-25 03:35:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-25 03:44:35 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 1 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 591 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 105 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.998752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 7.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118.799990496 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00q31tzv Id of event.
Event Code 00q31tzv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q31tzv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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