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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Gambell in Alaska

Posted by admin on January 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 63.258S, -172.502WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 69 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska (43 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Gambell in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:50:57 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 10:50:57 / January 16, 2018 @ 10:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -172.502 West, latitude 63.258 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: at00p2na4x. Unique identifier: at00p2na4x.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.502° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.258° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 10:50:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 10:57:03 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 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 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.043492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230.399981568 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 at00p2na4x Id of event.
Event Code 00p2na4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p2na4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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