Light earthquake 4 mag, 32 km NNW of Atka, Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 32 km NNW of Atka, Alaska (20 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16799943, us2000ajf7. Id of event: us2000ajf7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 237.56 km (148 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/17 / 2017-09-10 13:42:41 / September 10, 2017 @ 1:42 pm. Exact location of event, depth 237.56 km, -174.3526° West, 52.4771° North. The temblor was detected at 03:42:41 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen 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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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. 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: 32 km NNW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.3526° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.4771° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	237.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km NNW of Atka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-10 13:42:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-27 17:06:08	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	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	246	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	,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	0.128	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us2000ajf7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ajf7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16799943,us2000ajf7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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