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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near New Allakaket in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 66.4166S, -153.2724WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 31 km WSW of New Allakaket, Alaska (19 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.56 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -153.2724 West, latitude 66.4166 North, depth = 9.56 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/01/16 / 2016-01-17 14:52:29 / January 17, 2016 @ 2:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:52:29 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10004f7f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004f7f, ak12464501.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 31 km WSW of New Allakaket, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.2724° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.4166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km WSW of New Allakaket, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-17 14:52:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-17 15:15:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.33 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 298 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,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 0.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10004f7f Id of event.
Event Code 10004f7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004f7f,ak12464501, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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