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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 86 km S of Chignik Lake, Alaska

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Earthquake location 55.4923S, -158.5065WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 86 km S of Chignik Lake, Alaska (53 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -158.5065° West, latitude 55.4923° North, depth = 40.03 km. The temblor was reported at 20:01:20 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/16 / 2016-06-03 07:01:20 / June 3, 2016 @ 7:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 40.03 km (25 miles). Id of earthquake: us200061mq. Event ids that are associated: us200061mq, ak13628757.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 86 km S of Chignik Lake, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.5065° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.4923° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km S of Chignik Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-03 07:01:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-03 07:20:46 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 3.36 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 340 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 0.908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us200061mq Id of event.
Event Code 200061mq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061mq,ak13628757, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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