Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Circle in

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 121 km ENE of Circle, (75 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:07:41 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 09:07:41 / August 1, 2015 @ 9:07 am. Event id: ak11666297. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002x3j, ak11666297. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -140.9434° West, latitude 67.0335° North, depth = 0 km.

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 one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 121 km ENE of Circle, .

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-140.9434° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	67.0335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	121km ENE of Circle,	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-01 09:07:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-01 09:27:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.09	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	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	312	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	,us,ak,	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak11666297	Id of event.
Event Code	11666297	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002x3j,ak11666297,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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