Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Central Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Central Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Central Alaska. Event id: ak16028115. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00opw87v, ak16028115. A tsunami warning has been issued near Central Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 23.4 km, -147.8568° West, 62.1847° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 13:31:08 / May 13, 2017 @ 1:31 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.4 km (15 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:31:08 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Central Alaska.

Central Alaska Palmer United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.8568° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.1847° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Central 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 13:31:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-13 13:40:08	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	284	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	0.6 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	ak16028115	Id of event.
Event Code	16028115	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00opw87v,ak16028115,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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