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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.9973S, 179.1583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 30 km W of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (19 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 12:44:22 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 138.62 km (86 miles). Exact location of event, depth 138.62 km, 179.1583° East, 51.9973° North. Unique identifier: us200050cj. Ids that are associated to the event: us200050cj, ak12798741. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 22:44:22 / February 5, 2016 @ 10:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km W of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.1583° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 138.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km W of Semisopochnoi 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 2016-02-05 22:44:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-20 06:38:41 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 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 246 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 2.288 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us200050cj Id of event.
Event Code 200050cj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200050cj,ak12798741, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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