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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Attu Station in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.8987S, 169.0244WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 280 km W of Attu Station, Alaska (174 miles) on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/16 / 2016-02-22 17:07:06 / February 22, 2016 @ 5:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.0244 East, latitude 52.8987 North, depth = 14.77 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004smg. Id of event: us10004smg. The temblor was reported at 04:07:06 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.77 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 280 km W of Attu Station, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.0244° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 280km W of Attu Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-22 17:07:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-08 21:32:27 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 298 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 3.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us10004smg Id of event.
Event Code 10004smg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004smg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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