Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Akhiok in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 116 km S of Akhiok, Alaska (72 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: at00sovnip. Unique identifier: at00sovnip. A tsunami warning has been issued near Akhiok in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/12/24 / 2024-12-22 04:08:49 / December 22, 2024 @ 4:08 am. Exact location of event, longitude -153.968 West, latitude 55.905 North, depth = 14 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:08:49 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 116 km S of Akhiok, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-153.968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.905° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	116 km S of Akhiok, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-22 04:08:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-22 04:15:41	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	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	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6665499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	151.199987904	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	at00sovnip	Id of event.
Event Code	00sovnip	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sovnip,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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