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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 86 km SW of Gambell, Alaska


Earthquake location 63.228S, -172.965WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 86 km SW of Gambell, Alaska (53 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 13:54:36 / October 16, 2017 @ 1:54 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Gambell in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:54:36 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -172.965° West, latitude 63.228° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: at00oxx5b0. Ids that are associated to the event: at00oxx5b0.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 86 km SW of Gambell, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km SW of Gambell, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-16 13:54:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-16 14:02:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 326 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.199799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 287.99997696 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 at00oxx5b0 Id of event.
Event Code 00oxx5b0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oxx5b0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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