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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Aasiaat in Greenland


Earthquake location 69.1362S, -53.4823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Aasiaat in Greenland. The temblor was picked up at 14:17:17 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.03 km (9 miles). Event id: us20005j8h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005j8h. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -53.4823 West, latitude 69.1362 North, depth = 15.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 16:17:17 / April 17, 2016 @ 4:17 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greenland (c. 56 000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Ilulissat (c. 4 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ilulissat (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km NNW of Aasiaat, Greenland. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -53.4823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.1362° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NNW of Aasiaat, Greenland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-17 16:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-17 17:06:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -120 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 2.403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20005j8h Id of event.
Event Code 20005j8h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005j8h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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