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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.7576S, -164.8194WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 75 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (47 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007es3. Unique identifier: us20007es3. The temblor was reported at 23:55:23 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -164.8194 West, latitude 53.7576 North, depth = 50.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.52 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 10:55:23 / October 17, 2016 @ 10:55 am.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 75 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.8194° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km ESE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-17 10:55:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 11:10:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 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 312 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, 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 0.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us20007es3 Id of event.
Event Code 20007es3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007es3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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