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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.5252S, -163.5042WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 147 km S of False Pass, Alaska (91 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.56 km (15 miles). Global time and date of event 24/12/17 / 2017-12-24 14:40:02 / December 24, 2017 @ 2:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -163.5042 West, latitude 53.5252 North, depth = 23.56 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:40:02 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bvnp. Unique identifier: us1000bvnp.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 147 km S of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.5042° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.5252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 147km S of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-24 14:40:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-26 20:23:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 259 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 ,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 1.476 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000bvnp Id of event.
Event Code 1000bvnp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bvnp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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