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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 74 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.337S, -169.3443WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 74 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (46 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:49:31 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.3443 West, latitude 52.337 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 16:49:31 / June 19, 2016 @ 4:49 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13664550, us2000662x. Id of event: us2000662x. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 74 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.3443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-19 16:49:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-17 17:35:29 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 1.8 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 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 ,ak,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 0.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000662x Id of event.
Event Code 2000662x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13664550,us2000662x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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