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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 99 km NNW of Chirikof Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on February 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.6021S, -156.4106WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 99 km NNW of Chirikof Island, Alaska (62 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.5 km (38 miles). Global time and date of event 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 07:33:49 / February 14, 2016 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. 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: us20005031, ak12813055. Id of event: us20005031. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:49 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -156.4106 West, latitude 56.6021 North, depth = 60.5 km.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 99 km NNW of Chirikof Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.4106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km NNW of Chirikof Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-14 07:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-14 08:03:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 3.4 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 354 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 0.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20005031 Id of event.
Event Code 20005031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005031,ak12813055, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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