Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near False Pass in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 153 km S of False Pass, Alaska (95 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -163.5367° West, latitude 53.4776° North, depth = 20.187 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.187 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n77k. Id of event: us7000n77k. The temblor was picked up at 01:01:03 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 01:01:03 / July 30, 2024 @ 1:01 am.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 153 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.5367° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.4776° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.187 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	153 km S of False Pass, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-30 01:01:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-16 04:58:47	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	284	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.235	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us7000n77k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n77k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n77k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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