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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 105 km S of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2524S, -174.2549WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 105 km S of Atka, Alaska (65 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:54:31 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -174.2549 West, latitude 51.2524 North, depth = 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 10:54:31 / September 5, 2015 @ 10:54 am. Unique identifier: us20003gpb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003gpb.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 105 km S of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.2549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km S 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 10:54:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 11:26:07 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 271 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 0.951 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 212 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 us20003gpb Id of event.
Event Code 20003gpb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003gpb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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