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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Amukta Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0721S, -170.9554WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 50 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska (31 miles) on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17180452. Id of event: ak17180452. Exact location of earthquake, -170.9554° West, 52.0721° North, depth 9.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/17 / 2017-11-11 11:50:44 / November 11, 2017 @ 11:50 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:50:44 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 50 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.9554° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SSE of Amukta 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 2017-11-11 11:50:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-11 12:18:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 326 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 0.68 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 ak17180452 Id of event.
Event Code 17180452 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17180452, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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