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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7246S, -153.1772WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 75 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska (47 miles). Exact location, longitude -153.1772° West, latitude 59.7246° North, depth = 107.87 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/01/16 / 2016-01-28 07:26:00 / January 28, 2016 @ 7:26 am. Event id: us20004v94. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004v94. The temblor was detected at 22:26:00 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 107.87 km (67 miles).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 W of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.1772° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2016-01-28 07:26:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-28 07:57:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 259 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 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us20004v94 Id of event.
Event Code 20004v94 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004v94, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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