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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 75 km NNW of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.8147S, -174.6665WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 75 km NNW of Atka, Alaska (47 miles) on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 19:06:57 / January 8, 2016 @ 7:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004cep. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12452428, us10004cep. Exact location of earthquake, -174.6665° West, 52.8147° North, depth 199.07 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:06:57 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 199.07 km (124 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 75 km NNW of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.6665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8147° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 199.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km NNW 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 2016-01-08 19:06:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-09 18:03:17 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 284 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 ,ak,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 1.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us10004cep Id of event.
Event Code 10004cep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12452428,us10004cep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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