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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Yunaska Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9686S, -169.7215WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 99 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (62 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004qzn. Id of event: us10004qzn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/16 / 2016-02-19 06:06:37 / February 19, 2016 @ 6:06 am. The temblor was reported at 19:06:37 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 22.22 km, -169.7215° West, 51.9686° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 99 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.7215° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km SE of Yunaska 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 2016-02-19 06:06:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-19 08:09:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 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 284 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 1.136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10004qzn Id of event.
Event Code 10004qzn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004qzn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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