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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Homer in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.2659S, -152.0772WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Homer in Alaska. The temblor was picked up at 10:30:00 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0198eyu6cj, at00pu14u0. Id of event: ak0198eyu6cj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.9 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.0772 West, latitude 59.2659 North, depth = 47.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 19:30:00 / July 2, 2019 @ 7:30 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Homer in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 51 km SW of Homer, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.0772° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.2659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SW of Homer, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-02 19:30:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-02 19:35:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 0.6 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 ak0198eyu6cj Id of event.
Event Code 0198eyu6cj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0198eyu6cj,at00pu14u0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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