Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Valdez in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 60 km NW of Valdez, Alaska (37 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Valdez in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 14 km, -147.234° West, 61.472° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 20:08:44 / October 5, 2016 @ 8:08 pm. Unique identifier: at00oelbyk. Ids that are associated to the event: at00oelbyk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:08:44 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 60 km NW of Valdez, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.234° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.472° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km NW of Valdez, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-05 20:08:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-05 20:16:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	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	259	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6288207	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50.399995968	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	at00oelbyk	Id of event.
Event Code	00oelbyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00oelbyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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