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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Skagway in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.752S, -136.8085WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 90 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (56 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.77 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 14:59:49 / May 1, 2017 @ 2:59 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10008pu2. Event ids that are associated: us10008pu2. The temblor was picked up at 06:59:49 / 6:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 7.77 km, -136.8085° West, 59.752° North.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 90 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.8085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.752° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-01 14:59:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-18 16:57:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 369 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 1.768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10008pu2 Id of event.
Event Code 10008pu2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008pu2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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