Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near False Pass in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km S of False Pass, Alaska (60 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.2384 West, latitude 53.9885 North, depth = 23.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:51:49 / 2:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 23.09 km (14 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003pag. Unique identifier: us10003pag. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 01:51:49 / October 17, 2015 @ 1:51 am UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 96 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.2384° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.9885° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96km S of False Pass, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-17 01:51:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-17 02:23:15	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	340	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	0.876	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us10003pag	Id of event.
Event Code	10003pag	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003pag,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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