Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 107 km E of Akutan, Alaska (66 miles) on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 12:14:28 / September 12, 2015 @ 12:14 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -164.1612 West, latitude 53.9534 North, depth = 39.84 km. Id of earthquake: us20003j0g. Event ids that are associated: us20003j0g. The temblor was reported at 01:14:28 / 1:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.84 km (25 miles).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 107 km E of Akutan, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-164.1612° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.9534° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	107km E of Akutan, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-12 12:14:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-12 12:57:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	0.967	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155	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	us20003j0g	Id of event.
Event Code	20003j0g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003j0g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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