Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 56 km E of Atka, Alaska (35 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:28:16 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 15:28:16 / February 15, 2017 @ 3:28 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -173.3735 West, latitude 52.2328 North, depth = 80.2 km. Event id: ak15272907. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15272907. The epicenter was at a depth of 80.2 km (50 miles).

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 two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km E of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-173.3735° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.2328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km E of Atka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-15 15:28:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-15 19:27:41	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	2.79	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	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ak15272907	Id of event.
Event Code	15272907	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15272907,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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