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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Cohoe in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.2757S, -150.9325WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak0195zdvbuz. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0195zdvbuz. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/19 / 2019-05-10 23:52:45 / May 10, 2019 @ 11:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.4 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -150.9325° West, latitude 60.2757° North, depth = 51.4 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:52:45 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer, Kenai, Sterling (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (16 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km ESE of Cohoe, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.9325° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.2757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ESE of Cohoe, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-10 23:52:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-11 00:06:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.104 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 272 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 0.57 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 ak0195zdvbuz Id of event.
Event Code 0195zdvbuz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0195zdvbuz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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