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


Earthquake location 51.2132S, -179.6791WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 40 km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska (25 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.15 km (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -179.6791° West, 51.2132° North, depth 66.15 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 07:17:31 / June 1, 2016 @ 7:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:17:31 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20005zjb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005zjb, ak13620025.

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km W 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 -179.6791° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km W 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 2016-06-01 07:17:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 07:46:26 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 2.8 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 ,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 1.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us20005zjb Id of event.
Event Code 20005zjb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zjb,ak13620025, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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