Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Unalaska in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 82 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska (51 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us6000nwss. Event ids that are associated: ak024ctr5noo, us6000nwss. The temblor was reported at 20:52:08 / 8:52 pm (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: 05/10/24 / 2024-10-05 20:52:08 / October 5, 2024 @ 8:52 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -167.0581° West, 53.2052° North, depth 51.993 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 51.993 km (32 miles).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-167.0581° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.2052° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.993 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-05 20:52:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-06 01:20:12	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	298	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	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.552	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	us6000nwss	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nwss	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak024ctr5noo,us6000nwss,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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