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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 6 km WSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska


Earthquake location 57.515S, -154.073WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 6 km WSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 10:13:00 / June 29, 2015 @ 10:13 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Larsen Bay in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -154.073 West, latitude 57.515 North, depth = 62 km. Unique identifier: at00nqpb1o. Ids that are associated to the event: at00nqpb1o. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:13:00 / 2:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 62 km (39 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km WSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -154.073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Larsen Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 10:13:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 10:16:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 298 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.51653129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115.2 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 at00nqpb1o Id of event.
Event Code 00nqpb1o An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nqpb1o, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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