Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Circle in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 km SE of Circle, Alaska (16 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.04 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:57:53 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004sit, ak12879176. Unique identifier: us10004sit. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/02/16 / 2016-02-25 06:57:53 / February 25, 2016 @ 6:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -143.7005° West, 65.6534° North, depth 9.04 km.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 25 km SE of Circle, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-143.7005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	65.6534° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km SE of Circle, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-25 06:57:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-25 07:18:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	4.01	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	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	0.77	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10004sit	Id of event.
Event Code	10004sit	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004sit,ak12879176,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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