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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Chernabura Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4197S, -160.8182WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 91 km WSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska (57 miles). Unique identifier: us2000e02w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000e02w. Exact location, longitude -160.8182° West, latitude 54.4197° North, depth = 14.63 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:29:44 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/04/18 / 2018-04-14 03:29:44 / April 14, 2018 @ 3:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.63 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 91 km WSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.8182° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km WSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-14 03:29:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-14 03:43:45 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 312 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 0.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us2000e02w Id of event.
Event Code 2000e02w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e02w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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