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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kiska Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0168S, 178.028WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 km ESE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (19 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kiska Volcano in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 14:49:35 / September 19, 2017 @ 2:49 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00owj7un, us2000aqrc. Unique identifier: us2000aqrc. The temblor was detected at 04:49:35 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.028 East, latitude 52.0168 North, depth = 127.95 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 127.95 km (80 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km ESE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.028° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km ESE of Kiska 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 2017-09-19 14:49:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-19 15:05:12 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,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 1.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000aqrc Id of event.
Event Code 2000aqrc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00owj7un,us2000aqrc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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