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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5976S, -179.0594WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 37 km N of Amatignak Island, Alaska (23 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/19 / 2019-12-08 09:44:30 / December 8, 2019 @ 9:44 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -179.0594° West, 51.5976° North, depth 82 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ak019fprf437. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019fprf437. The temblor was detected at 23:44:30 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km N of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.0594° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km N of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-08 09:44:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-08 10:04:28 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 259 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 0.63 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 ak019fprf437 Id of event.
Event Code 019fprf437 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019fprf437, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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