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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3199S, 178.2571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 72 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (45 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.41 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 08:23:47 / February 4, 2018 @ 8:23 am. Exact location, longitude 178.2571° East, latitude 51.3199° North, depth = 32.41 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cfl3. Unique identifier: us1000cfl3. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:23:47 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.2571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3199° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SSW of Little Sitkin 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 2018-02-04 08:23:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 08:58:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 284 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, 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 2.912 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000cfl3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfl3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfl3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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