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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 32 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska

Posted by admin on August 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6024S, -178.2857WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 32 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (20 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000a508. Event ids that are associated: at00ou6wkx, ak16437689, us2000a508. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 02:07:48 / August 5, 2017 @ 2:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:07:48 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -178.2857° West, 51.6024° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2857° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-05 02:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 02:29:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 3.45 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 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 354 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 ,at,ak,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 0.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us2000a508 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a508 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ou6wkx,ak16437689,us2000a508, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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