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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.9283S, -163.8662WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 106 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska (66 miles). Id of earthquake: us10007vj1. Event ids that are associated: us10007vj1, ak15168635. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.8662 West, latitude 53.9283 North, depth = 37.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 16:32:46 / January 26, 2017 @ 4:32 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.03 km (23 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:32:46 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter).

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 one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 106 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.8662° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.9283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km SSW of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-26 16:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-26 16:56:03 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 2.93 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 284 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,ak, 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 1.143 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us10007vj1 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vj1,ak15168635, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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