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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.2572S, -179.8877WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 124 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (77 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:49:27 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.92 km (20 miles). Global time and date of event 23/04/18 / 2018-04-23 11:49:27 / April 23, 2018 @ 11:49 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000dqmm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dqmm. Exact location of event, longitude -179.8877 West, latitude 50.2572 North, depth = 31.92 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 124 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.2572° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km SSW of Amatignak 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 2018-04-23 11:49:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-23 13:14:08 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 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 298 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 1.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us1000dqmm Id of event.
Event Code 1000dqmm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dqmm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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