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Light earthquake 4 mag, 38 km NNW of Healy, Alaska


Earthquake location 64.1424S, -149.3929WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 38 km NNW of Healy, Alaska (24 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.6 km (24 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:04:05 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -149.3929° West, 64.1424° North, depth 38.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/16 / 2016-01-14 19:04:05 / January 14, 2016 @ 7:04 pm. Unique identifier: ak12461076. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12461076.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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 NNW of Healy, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.3929° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 64.1424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km NNW of Healy, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-14 19:04:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-14 19:22:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.4 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 247 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 0.9 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 ak12461076 Id of event.
Event Code 12461076 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12461076, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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