Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Ester in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ester in Alaska. The temblor was detected at 11:46:56 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70006zut. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006zut, ak020nhpice. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -148.5233° West, 64.7358° North, depth 25.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.9 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 20:46:56 / January 14, 2020 @ 8:46 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, Fairbanks, College (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km WSW of Ester, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-148.5233° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.7358° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km WSW of Ester, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-14 20:46:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-14 20:58:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	42	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.69	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	272	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,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	0.275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us70006zut	Id of event.
Event Code	70006zut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006zut,ak020nhpice,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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