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Light earthquake 4 mag, Gulf of Alaska


Earthquake location 55.6598S, -149.252WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000cpn2. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cpn2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.96 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.252 West, latitude 55.6598 North, depth = 7.96 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:18:17 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 06:18:17 / January 26, 2018 @ 6:18 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Gulf of Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.6598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Gulf of Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-26 06:18:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-26 07:57:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 246 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 2.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000cpn2 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpn2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpn2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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