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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 90 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska


Earthquake location 55.1198S, -158.8421WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 90 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (56 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:25:21 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -158.8421 West, latitude 55.1198 North, depth = 14.8 km. Global time and date of event 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 10:25:21 / March 16, 2025 @ 10:25 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pz5l, ak0253g7eroz. Id of event: ak0253g7eroz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.8 km (9 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 90 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.8421° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.1198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-16 10:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-16 18:08:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.086 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 312 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 ,us,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 0.6 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 ak0253g7eroz Id of event.
Event Code 0253g7eroz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pz5l,ak0253g7eroz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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