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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.7503S, -153.1474WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -153.1474° West, latitude 59.7503° North, depth = 104.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 05:35:37 / October 19, 2017 @ 5:35 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:35:37 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak17082078. Ids that are associated to the event: ak17082078. The epicenter was at a depth of 104.7 km (65 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 74 km W 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 -153.1474° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.7503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km W 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 2017-10-19 05:35:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 05:38:39 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 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 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 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, 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 0.27 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 ak17082078 Id of event.
Event Code 17082078 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17082078, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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