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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.1233S, -139.5957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 64 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (40 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:04:32 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 9.19 km, -139.5957° West, 60.1233° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 15:04:32 / August 3, 2016 @ 3:04 pm. Id of earthquake: us100069ry. Event ids that are associated: at00obc9vl, us100069ry, ak13829275. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.19 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 64 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.5957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.1233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 15:04:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 15:27:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 3.89 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 298 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 ,at,us,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 0.171 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 79 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 us100069ry Id of event.
Event Code 100069ry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00obc9vl,us100069ry,ak13829275, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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