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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Craig in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.46S, -134.0629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 127 km SSW of Craig, Alaska (79 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:44:07 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -134.0629 West, latitude 54.46 North, depth = 1 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Craig in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 03:44:07 / August 10, 2017 @ 3:44 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ougadj, ak16490848. Id of event: at00ougadj.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 127 km SSW of Craig, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -134.0629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.46° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km SSW of Craig, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-10 03:44:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-10 03:54:51 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 2.47 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 271 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.145352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187.199985024 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 at00ougadj Id of event.
Event Code 00ougadj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ougadj,ak16490848, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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