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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 100 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska

Posted by admin on July 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.9995S, -157.8249WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 100 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (62 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:48:02 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20006fst. Event ids that are associated: us20006fst, ak13772238. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/16 / 2016-07-19 12:48:02 / July 19, 2016 @ 12:48 pm. Exact location, longitude -157.8249° West, latitude 56.9995° North, depth = 10 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.8249° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.9995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km NE 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 2016-07-19 12:48:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-19 13:12:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 4.34 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 ,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 0.771 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20006fst Id of event.
Event Code 20006fst An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006fst,ak13772238, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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