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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Chirik

Posted by admin on February 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.5458S, -156.346WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 99 km NNW of Chirikof Island, Alaska (62 miles) on Saturday. Unique identifier: ak12813055. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005031, ak12813055. Exact location of earthquake, -156.346° West, 56.5458° North, depth 66.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66.7 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:33:48 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 07:33:48 / February 14, 2016 @ 7:33 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.7 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 07:33:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-15 18:40:36 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 298 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 ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.089656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140.399988768 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 ak12813055 Id of event.
Event Code 12813055 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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