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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Perryville in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.9684S, -158.2823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 118 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (73 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/20 / 2020-07-30 16:08:19 / July 30, 2020 @ 4:08 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -158.2823° West, 54.9684° North, depth 23.22 km. The temblor was detected at 16:08:19 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Perryville in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000b6ys. Event ids that are associated: at00qeai5v, us6000b6ys, ak0209qvi9kl.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 118 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.2823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.9684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-30 16:08:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-30 16:29:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.3 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 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 370 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 ,at,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 0.767 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000b6ys Id of event.
Event Code 6000b6ys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qeai5v,us6000b6ys,ak0209qvi9kl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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