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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Buldir Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9326S, 175.5286WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 54 km SSW of Buldir Island, Alaska (34 miles). Unique identifier: us10005gki. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005gki. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:56:53 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.65 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 22:56:53 / May 3, 2016 @ 10:56 pm. Exact location, longitude 175.5286° East, latitude 51.9326° North, depth = 46.65 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km SSW of Buldir Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.5286° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSW of Buldir 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 2016-05-03 22:56:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 23:06:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 1.185 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us10005gki Id of event.
Event Code 10005gki An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gki, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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