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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.062S, 178.0772WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 31 km WNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (19 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 134.24 km (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:29:20 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100032n9. Event ids that are associated: us100032n9. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 02:29:20 / August 16, 2015 @ 2:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 178.0772° East, 52.062° North, depth 134.24 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 31 km WNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.0772° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km WNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-16 02:29:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-16 02:48:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100032n9 Id of event.
Event Code 100032n9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032n9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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