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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 138 km W of Port Hardy, Canada

Posted by admin on May 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 50.457S, -129.335WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 138 km W of Port Hardy, Canada (86 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00qari8u. Id of event: at00qari8u. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 02:14:54 / May 23, 2020 @ 2:14 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -129.335° West, 50.457° North, depth 12 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:14:54 / 5:14 pm (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).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 138 km W of Port Hardy, Canada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -129.335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138km 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 2020-05-23 02:14:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 02:21:48 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 369 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154.799987616 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 at00qari8u Id of event.
Event Code 00qari8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qari8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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