Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Ucluelet in Canada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ucluelet in Canada on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: uw62091527, us7000pwet. Unique identifier: us7000pwet. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.02 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/25 / 2025-05-01 18:49:41 / May 1, 2025 @ 6:49 pm. Exact location, longitude -125.3349° West, latitude 48.8844° North, depth = 39.02 km. The temblor was reported at 18:49:41 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Port Alberni (c. 21 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port Alberni (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Canada (c. 33 679 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Ucluelet, Canada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-125.3349° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	48.8844° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km ESE of Ucluelet, Canada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-01 18:49:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-01 19:54:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.058	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	0	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	143	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	,uw,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.132	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pwet	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pwet	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uw62091527,us7000pwet,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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