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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7589S, 178.4642WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:51:13 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.412 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000mznc. Event ids that are associated: us7000mznc, ak02493s0wva. Exact location of earthquake, 178.4642° East, 51.7589° North, depth 103.412 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/24 / 2024-07-16 19:51:13 / July 16, 2024 @ 7:51 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.4642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7589° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.412 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-16 19:51:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-16 20:14:08 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 3.437 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 369 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 93 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.208 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us7000mznc Id of event.
Event Code 7000mznc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mznc,ak02493s0wva, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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