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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.6348S, -151.9904WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -151.9904° West, latitude 59.6348° North, depth = 64.6 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.6 km (40 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:46:38 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 03:46:38 / October 28, 2018 @ 3:46 am. Event id: ak20293315. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20293315, at00phaihq.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 18 km SSW of Anchor Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.9904° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.6348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-28 03:46:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 03:51:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 automatic 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 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,at, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak20293315 Id of event.
Event Code 20293315 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20293315,at00phaihq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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