Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Whittier in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 57 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska (35 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Whittier in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:44:13 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00p7155p. Unique identifier: at00p7155p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -147.7° West, 60.6° North, depth 31 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 16:44:13 / April 11, 2018 @ 4:44 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-147.7° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.6° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km ESE of Whittier, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-11 16:44:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-11 16:50:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	272	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	49	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79.199993664001	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	at00p7155p	Id of event.
Event Code	00p7155p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00p7155p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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