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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4832S, 177.8437WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59.32 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/09/20 / 2020-09-24 19:23:20 / September 24, 2020 @ 7:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:23:20 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 177.8437° East, latitude 51.4832° North, depth = 59.32 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020cbjh7sk, us6000c0rt. Unique identifier: us6000c0rt.

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 three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.8437° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-24 19:23:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-25 12:57:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 ,ak,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 0.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us6000c0rt Id of event.
Event Code 6000c0rt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020cbjh7sk,us6000c0rt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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