Light earthquake 4 mag, 135 km SE of Atka, Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 135 km SE of Atka, Alaska (84 miles). Id of earthquake: ak11799238. Event ids that are associated: ak11799238. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 11:38:54 / November 8, 2015 @ 11:38 am. Exact location of earthquake, -172.7279° West, 51.3847° North, depth 3.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.1 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:38:54 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-172.7279° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.3847° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	135km SE 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	2015-11-08 11:38:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-17 19:53:50	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	246	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	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	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	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.799981856	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	ak11799238	Id of event.
Event Code	11799238	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11799238,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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