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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Gambell in Alaska


Earthquake location 63.1214S, -172.5025WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 82 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska (51 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 04:41:00 / January 16, 2018 @ 4:41 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -172.5025 West, latitude 63.1214 North, depth = 30.1 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.1 km (19 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ak18063187. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00p2mt0d, ak18063187. The temblor was reported at 16:41:00 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 82 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.5025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.1214° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SSW of Gambell, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 04:41:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 19:53:44 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 3.03 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 340 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 0.86 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 ak18063187 Id of event.
Event Code 18063187 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p2mt0d,ak18063187, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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