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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 81 km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska

Posted by admin on September 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 61.3002S, -152.1363WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. The epicenter was at a depth of 130.6 km (81 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Nikiski in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 12:27:42 / September 1, 2016 @ 12:27 pm. The temblor was picked up at 04:27:42 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak13889704. Event ids that are associated: ak13889704, at00octry5. Exact location of event, depth 130.6 km, -152.1363° West, 61.3002° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 81 km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.1363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.3002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-01 12:27:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 12:34:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 automatic 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 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05479723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39.599996832 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 ak13889704 Id of event.
Event Code 13889704 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13889704,at00octry5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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