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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Central Alaska


Earthquake location 64.1833S, -150.0833WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Central Alaska (0 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Global time and date of event 06/11/16 / 2016-11-06 09:29:10 / November 6, 2016 @ 9:29 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100075wr. Id of event: us100075wr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -150.0833 West, latitude 64.1833 North, depth = 20 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:29:10 / 9:29 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: Central Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.1833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Central Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-06 09:29:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-19 08:31:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 246 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100075wr Id of event.
Event Code 100075wr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100075wr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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