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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.9538S, -152.199WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Thursday. Event id: ak019g85wsn8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00q2s5xp, ak019g85wsn8. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/12/19 / 2019-12-19 22:17:49 / December 19, 2019 @ 10:17 pm UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:17:49 / 1:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 78.7 km, -152.199° West, 59.9538° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.7 km (49 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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. 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: 28 km NW of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.199° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NW 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 2019-12-19 22:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-19 22:20:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 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 246 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 ,at,ak, 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 0.54 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 ak019g85wsn8 Id of event.
Event Code 019g85wsn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00q2s5xp,ak019g85wsn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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