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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Alaska


Earthquake location 54.9289S, -159.2221WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported south of Alaska (0 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 22/07/20 / 2020-07-22 06:30:04 / July 22, 2020 @ 6:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -159.2221 West, latitude 54.9289 North, depth = 27.05 km. Unique identifier: us7000asvp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000asvp. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.05 km (17 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:30:04 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: south of Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.2221° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.9289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-22 06:30:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-22 06:45:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 354 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 0.233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us7000asvp Id of event.
Event Code 7000asvp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000asvp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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