Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Valdez in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 38 km WNW of Valdez, Alaska (24 miles) on Thursday. Event id: ak025qufoy6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025qufoy6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.7 km (9 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:24:12 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -146.9491 West, latitude 61.3177 North, depth = 13.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/25 / 2025-01-16 23:24:12 / January 16, 2025 @ 11:24 pm.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 38 km WNW of Valdez, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-146.9491° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.3177° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km WNW of Valdez, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-16 23:24:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-16 23:28:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	automatic	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	259	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,	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	0.54 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	ak025qufoy6	Id of event.
Event Code	025qufoy6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak025qufoy6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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