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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 49 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.9671S, -152.6293WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.4 km (55 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 20:38:33 / April 7, 2017 @ 8:38 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:38:33 / 11:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -152.6293° West, 59.9671° North, depth 88.4 km. Unique identifier: ak15703680. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15703680, at00oo2408.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.6293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-07 20:38:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-07 20:45:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 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 285 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,at, 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 0.61 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 ak15703680 Id of event.
Event Code 15703680 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15703680,at00oo2408, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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