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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3663S, -178.3771WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 52 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (32 miles). Unique identifier: us10008qa8. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008qa8, ak15958635. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.31 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.3771 West, latitude 51.3663 North, depth = 29.31 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 10:22:52 / May 7, 2017 @ 10:22 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:22:52 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km ENE of Amatignak Island, 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 -178.3771° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km ENE 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 2017-05-07 10:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-07 11:21:30 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 3 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 0.905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us10008qa8 Id of event.
Event Code 10008qa8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qa8,ak15958635, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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