Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 20 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7837S, -177.8974WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 06:45:36 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:45 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 11.24 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 11.24 km, -177.8974° West, 51.7837° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:45:36 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007dlj. Id of event: us60007dlj.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Did you feel anything?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7837° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-23 06:45:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 07:05:34 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 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 0.467 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us60007dlj Id of event.
Event Code 60007dlj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dlj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply