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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.341S, -178.7308WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 27 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (17 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 22:49:04 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005uk4. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005uk4. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.7308 West, latitude 51.341 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 08:49:04 / October 16, 2019 @ 8:49 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 27 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ENE 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 2019-10-16 08:49:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-16 09:13:41 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 312 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 1.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us70005uk4 Id of event.
Event Code 70005uk4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005uk4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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