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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 287 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada


Earthquake location 51.3072S, -131.0194WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 287 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada (178 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -131.0194 West, latitude 51.3072 North, depth = 11.48 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port McNeill in Canada (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.48 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 01:10:37 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 01:10:37 / November 11, 2020 @ 1:10 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000cd6w. Ids that are associated to the event: at00qjlxxx, us7000cd6w.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 287 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -131.0194° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 287 km WNW of Port McNeill, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-11 01:10:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-11 01:42:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 1.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us7000cd6w Id of event.
Event Code 7000cd6w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qjlxxx,us7000cd6w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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