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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.0668S, -151.9062WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes Kenai Peninsula, Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska on Saturday. Global time and date of event 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 12:19:46 / May 13, 2017 @ 12:19 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00opw4wy, ak16027805. Unique identifier: ak16027805. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.2 km (45 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.9062 West, latitude 60.0668 North, depth = 73.2 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:19:46 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Kenai, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.9062° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-13 12:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-13 12:23:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 259 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 ,at,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 0.28 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 ak16027805 Id of event.
Event Code 16027805 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00opw4wy,ak16027805, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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