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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Perryville in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.0088S, -158.3628WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (69 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b6t3. Unique identifier: us6000b6t3. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.77 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:02:07 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/20 / 2020-07-26 10:02:07 / July 26, 2020 @ 10:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -158.3628 West, latitude 55.0088 North, depth = 34.77 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 111 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3628° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0088° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111 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 2020-07-26 10:02:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-09 08:33:37 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 246 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 0.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 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 us6000b6t3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b6t3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b6t3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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