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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.334S, 179.0756WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 164 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (102 miles). Exact location of event, depth 38.48 km, 179.0756° East, 50.334° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 17:41:59 / February 11, 2016 @ 5:41 pm. Unique identifier: us20004zj7. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12798631, us20004zj7. The temblor was detected at 05:41:59 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.48 km (24 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 164 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.0756° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 164km SW of Amatignak 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 2016-02-11 17:41:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-04 17:55:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 326 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 ,ak,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 1.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us20004zj7 Id of event.
Event Code 20004zj7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12798631,us20004zj7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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