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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4739S, -174.4319WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 81 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (50 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003gln. Event ids that are associated: us20003gln. Exact location of event, longitude -174.4319 West, latitude 51.4739 North, depth = 43.94 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.94 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:32:24 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 07:32:24 / September 5, 2015 @ 7:32 am.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-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. 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: 81 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.4319° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4739° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-05 07:32:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 07:49:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,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 0.743 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us20003gln Id of event.
Event Code 20003gln An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003gln, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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