Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Chirik

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 264 km ESE of Chirikof Island, Alaska (164 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 34 km, -151.6° West, 55.176° North. Event id: at00ouku4w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ouku4w. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/17 / 2017-08-12 14:41:20 / August 12, 2017 @ 2:41 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Chirik (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:41:20 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 264 km ESE of Chirikof Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.6° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.176° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	264km ESE of Chirikof 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	2017-08-12 14:41:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-12 14:46:49	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		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	340	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.008633	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	237.599980992	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	at00ouku4w	Id of event.
Event Code	00ouku4w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ouku4w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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