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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Amukta Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8869S, -171.5675WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 70 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (43 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -171.5675 West, latitude 51.8869 North, depth = 32.15 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/19 / 2019-08-31 06:53:49 / August 31, 2019 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us70005ai9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ai9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.15 km (20 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:53:49 / 7:53 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.5675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8869° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SSW of Amukta 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 2019-08-31 06:53:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-31 07:13:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 271 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 1.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us70005ai9 Id of event.
Event Code 70005ai9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ai9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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