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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 77 km SSW of King Salmon, Alaska


Earthquake location 58.029S, -157.075WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from King Salmon in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 20:50:08 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Global time of event 27/03/15 / 2015-03-27 04:50:08 / March 27, 2015 @ 4:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near King Salmon in Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -157.075 West, latitude 58.029 North, depth 37 km, unique identifier, at00nlutfk.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.075° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.029° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SSW of King Salmon, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-03-27 04:50:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-03-27 05:05:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 5 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 284 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.87747894 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111.6 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 at00nlutfk Id of event.
Event Code 00nlutfk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nlutfk,ak11538150, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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