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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1601S, 179.5206WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 88 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (55 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/17 / 2017-06-05 04:00:12 / June 5, 2017 @ 4:00 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.5206 East, latitude 51.1601 North, depth = 39.26 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009kqc. Unique identifier: us20009kqc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.26 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:00:12 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5206° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-05 04:00:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-05 04:26:15 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 0.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us20009kqc Id of event.
Event Code 20009kqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009kqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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