Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Anchor Point in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -152.5403° West, 59.8065° North, depth 85.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:39:36 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.6 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/16 / 2016-01-10 22:39:36 / January 10, 2016 @ 10:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12455299. Id of event: ak12455299.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

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 nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.5403° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.8065° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	85.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km W of Anchor Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-10 22:39:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-10 22:58:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3	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	automatic	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	247	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		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	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak12455299	Id of event.
Event Code	12455299	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12455299,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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