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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.9937S, -179.3438WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 34 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/20 / 2020-02-21 10:24:33 / February 21, 2020 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 22:24:33 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -179.3438° West, 50.9937° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70007u3w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007u3w.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.3438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSW 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 2020-02-21 10:24:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 11:19:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 326 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 0.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70007u3w Id of event.
Event Code 70007u3w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007u3w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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