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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Posted by admin on July 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0978S, -169.2506WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Monday. Id of earthquake: ak11657442. Event ids that are associated: ak11657442. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -169.2506° West, 52.0978° North. The temblor was reported at 05:02:24 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 05:02:24 / July 27, 2015 @ 5:02 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-two, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.2506° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-27 05:02:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-31 01:33:17 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 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 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.199982144 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 ak11657442 Id of event.
Event Code 11657442 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11657442, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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