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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near King Salmon in Alaska


Earthquake location 57.9107S, -156.2728WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -156.2728 West, latitude 57.9107 North, depth = 119.1 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 119.1 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/10/17 / 2017-10-12 05:51:18 / October 12, 2017 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17019997. Id of event: ak17019997. The temblor was reported at 20:51:18 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 89 km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -156.2728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.9107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SSE of King Salmon, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-12 05:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-12 05:59:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 automatic 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 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 0.89 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 ak17019997 Id of event.
Event Code 17019997 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17019997, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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