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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.1082S, -178.5457WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 134 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (83 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.89 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us100086m3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15430114, us100086m3. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:58:29 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.5457 West, latitude 50.1082 North, depth = 33.89 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/17 / 2017-03-02 21:58:29 / March 2, 2017 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 134 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.5457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.1082° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-02 21:58:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-02 23:24:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 271 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 ,ak,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 1.867 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us100086m3 Id of event.
Event Code 100086m3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15430114,us100086m3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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