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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Larsen Bay in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.304S, -153.119WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 147 km SSE of Larsen Bay, Alaska (91 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -153.119° West, latitude 56.304° North, depth = 17 km. The temblor was reported at 16:32:23 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/16 / 2016-09-10 02:32:23 / September 10, 2016 @ 2:32 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Larsen Bay in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: at00od9odz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00od9odz.

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 one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 147 km SSE of Larsen Bay, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km SSE of Larsen Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-10 02:32:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-10 02:36:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 271 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6431937 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197.99998416 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 at00od9odz Id of event.
Event Code 00od9odz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00od9odz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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