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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1567S, -179.0255WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (8 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 04:05:26 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.19 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/19 / 2019-08-26 14:05:26 / August 26, 2019 @ 2:05 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005892. Unique identifier: us70005892. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.0255 West, latitude 51.1567 North, depth = 26.19 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.0255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1567° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE 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 2019-08-26 14:05:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-26 14:24:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 1.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us70005892 Id of event.
Event Code 70005892 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005892, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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