Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.6343 West, latitude 60.6059 North, depth = 36.6 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.6 km (23 miles). Id of earthquake: ak17271046. Event ids that are associated: at00ozkz3n, ak17271046. The temblor was reported at 12:16:34 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 21:16:34 / November 17, 2017 @ 9:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sterling in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle River, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 10 km NE of Sterling, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.6343° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.6059° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NE of Sterling, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-17 21:16:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-17 21:26:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	63	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	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	349	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	,at,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	0.75 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	ak17271046	Id of event.
Event Code	17271046	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ozkz3n,ak17271046,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-150.6343° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

60.6059° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

36.6 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

10km NE of Sterling, Alaska

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-11-17 21:16:34

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-17 21:26:53

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

3.8

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

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

349

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,at,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

0.75 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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

ak17271046

Id of event.

Event Code

17271046

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,at00ozkz3n,ak17271046,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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