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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.8978S, -161.5245WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 81 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska (50 miles). Event id: us10008krp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008krp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.23 km (70 miles). 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: 25/04/17 / 2017-04-25 17:23:44 / April 25, 2017 @ 5:23 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:23:44 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -161.5245 West, latitude 54.8978 North, depth = 113.23 km.

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 81 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -161.5245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8978° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SW of Sand Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-25 17:23:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-25 17:38:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us10008krp Id of event.
Event Code 10008krp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008krp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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