Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 7, 2020 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/11/20 / 2020-11-07 12:27:29 / November 7, 2020 @ 12:27 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:27:29 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -150.1644° West, latitude 61.5953° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: ak020ec6zbtu. Event ids that are associated: ak020ec6zbtu.

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Elmendorf Air Force Base.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NW of Big Lake, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.1644° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.5953° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NW of Big Lake, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-07 12:27:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-07 12:34:49	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	automatic	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	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ak020ec6zbtu	Id of event.
Event Code	020ec6zbtu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020ec6zbtu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Big Lake in Alaska

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information