Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 57 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -152.8514 West, latitude 59.828 North, depth = 94.6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.6 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: ak02462bum3w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02462bum3w, us6000mxwn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:53:05 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/05/24 / 2024-05-11 01:53:05 / May 11, 2024 @ 1:53 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.8514° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.828° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	94.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-11 01:53:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-13 04:47:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	153	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.509	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	370	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,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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 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	ak02462bum3w	Id of event.
Event Code	02462bum3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak02462bum3w,us6000mxwn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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