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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Beluga in Alaska

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Beluga in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -150.893° West, 61.1659° North, depth 11.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:07:11 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak0251no5l03. Event ids that are associated: ak0251no5l03. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.6 km (7 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/25 / 2025-02-05 08:07:11 / February 5, 2025 @ 8:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanaina, Wasilla, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 10 km ENE of Beluga, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.893° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.1659° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km ENE of Beluga, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-05 08:07:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-05 08:12:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	273	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	0.47 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	ak0251no5l03	Id of event.
Event Code	0251no5l03	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0251no5l03,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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