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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 124 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska


Earthquake location 57.14S, -157.516WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 124 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (77 miles). Exact location of event, depth 3.3 km, -157.516° West, 57.14° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.3 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/17 / 2017-03-25 01:00:39 / March 25, 2017 @ 1:00 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:00:39 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15638937. Id of event: ak15638937. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 124 km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.14° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-25 01:00:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-25 01:11:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 4.13 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 271 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 1.07 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 ak15638937 Id of event.
Event Code 15638937 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15638937, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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