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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Talkeetna in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 62.4785S, -149.5592WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 33 km ENE of Talkeetna, Alaska (21 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 13:37:25 / March 5, 2016 @ 1:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -149.5592° West, 62.4785° North, depth 53.21 km. Event id: us10004uwx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004uwx, ak12946158. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53.21 km (33 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:37:25 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ENE of Talkeetna, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.5592° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.4785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ENE of Talkeetna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-05 13:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-05 14:01:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.4 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 272 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 0.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 20 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 us10004uwx Id of event.
Event Code 10004uwx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004uwx,ak12946158, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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