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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.1028S, 179.1387WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 99 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (62 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:15:53 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.49 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 00:15:53 / August 5, 2018 @ 12:15 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3nv. Unique identifier: us1000g3nv. Exact location of event, depth 28.49 km, 179.1387° East, 51.1028° North.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.1387° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km SSW of Semisopochnoi 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 2018-08-05 00:15:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-05 00:36:30 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 259 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 0.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 us1000g3nv Id of event.
Event Code 1000g3nv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g3nv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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