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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 61 km SSE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4225S, 179.8651WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 61 km SSE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (38 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/17 / 2017-07-15 16:11:12 / July 15, 2017 @ 4:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 179.8651° East, 51.4225° North, depth 51 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak16335429. Unique identifier: ak16335429. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:11:12 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 61 km SSE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.8651° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SSE 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 2017-07-15 16:11:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-15 17:56:49 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 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 ,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 0.35 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 ak16335429 Id of event.
Event Code 16335429 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16335429, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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