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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.138S, -139.528WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (41 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 07:04:33 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 15:04:33 / August 3, 2016 @ 3:04 pm. Event id: at00obc9vl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00obc9vl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -139.528 West, latitude 60.138 North, depth = 4 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 66 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.528° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km N of Yakutat, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-03 15:04:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 15:08:12 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 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 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 259 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1931378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64.799994816 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 at00obc9vl Id of event.
Event Code 00obc9vl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00obc9vl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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