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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.1444S, -177.2064WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 90 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (56 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 09:54:32 / May 9, 2017 @ 9:54 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.16 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:54:32 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10008qrw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008qrw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.2064 West, latitude 51.1444 North, depth = 36.16 km.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.2064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1444° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSW of Adak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-09 09:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-09 12:48:20 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 326 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 0.709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us10008qrw Id of event.
Event Code 10008qrw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008qrw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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