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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.767S, -153.316WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 83 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska (52 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 18:34:59 / August 11, 2016 @ 6:34 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:59 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 109 km (68 miles). Unique identifier: at00obrcyb. Ids that are associated to the event: at00obrcyb. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -153.316° West, 59.767° North, depth 109 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 83 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.316° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km W of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-11 18:34:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-11 18:42:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1 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 285 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1221709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71.999994240001 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00obrcyb Id of event.
Event Code 00obrcyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00obrcyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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