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Light earthquake 4 mag, 29 km SSE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.854S, 177.7509WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 km SSE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (18 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.97 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 177.7509° East, latitude 51.854° North, depth = 80.97 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:31:38 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 23:31:38 / February 23, 2019 @ 11:31 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jawj. Unique identifier: us1000jawj.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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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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: 29 km SSE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.7509° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-23 23:31:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-10 05:14:28 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 3.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us1000jawj Id of event.
Event Code 1000jawj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jawj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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