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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Attu Station in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6579S, 176.3357WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 252 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaska (157 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:55:38 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 03:55:38 / August 16, 2020 @ 3:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 176.3357° East, latitude 51.6579° North, depth = 36.01 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.01 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us6000bffv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bffv.

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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 252 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.3357° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 252 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-16 03:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 04:21:22 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 259 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 1.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000bffv Id of event.
Event Code 6000bffv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bffv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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