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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 65 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.3362S, -153.0629WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Nanwalek in Alaska. A tsunami warning has been issued near Nanwalek in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/08/20 / 2020-08-23 02:12:07 / August 23, 2020 @ 2:12 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:12:07 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000bj9x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bj9x, at00qfhvg7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 94.59 km (59 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -153.0629° West, 59.3362° North, depth 94.59 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.0629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.3362° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-23 02:12:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 02:32:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,at, 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 0.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us6000bj9x Id of event.
Event Code 6000bj9x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bj9x,at00qfhvg7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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