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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0066S, -176.9617WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). 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 36.8 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 15:35:06 / May 8, 2017 @ 3:35 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -176.9617 West, latitude 51.0066 North, depth = 36.8 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:35:06 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ak15988384. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15988384.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.9617° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-08 15:35:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-24 00:37:28 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 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 312 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 ,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 0.79 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 ak15988384 Id of event.
Event Code 15988384 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15988384, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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