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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 105 km ESE of Atka, Alaska

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Earthquake location 51.9007S, -172.7445WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 105 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (65 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:37:25 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000bl7k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17463437, us1000bl7k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 04/12/17 / 2017-12-04 23:37:25 / December 4, 2017 @ 11:37 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -172.7445 West, latitude 51.9007 North, depth = 34.31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.31 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 105 km ESE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.7445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km ESE 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 2017-12-04 23:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-05 00:01:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 284 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 0.915 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us1000bl7k Id of event.
Event Code 1000bl7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17463437,us1000bl7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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