Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 132 km W of Attu Station, Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 132 km W of Attu Station, Alaska (82 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.38 km (23 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:00:55 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 06:00:55 / July 8, 2016 @ 6:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 171.2259 East, latitude 52.859 North, depth = 36.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100061tv. Id of event: us100061tv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 132 km W of Attu Station, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	171.2259° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.859° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	132km 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	2016-07-08 06:00:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-08 06:17:38	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	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	1.751	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us100061tv	Id of event.
Event Code	100061tv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100061tv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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