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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Port Graham in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.1782S, -151.631WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Port Graham in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak02117d7jj0, at00qnkbj0. Unique identifier: ak02117d7jj0. A tsunami warning has been issued near Port Graham in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.2 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 26/01/21 / 2021-01-26 22:23:25 / January 26, 2021 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:23:25 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -151.631° West, latitude 59.1782° North, depth = 35.2 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 22 km SSE of Port Graham, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.1782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km SSE of Port Graham, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-26 22:23:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-26 22:29:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 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 285 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,at, 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 0.65 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 ak02117d7jj0 Id of event.
Event Code 02117d7jj0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02117d7jj0,at00qnkbj0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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