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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Alaska

Posted by admin on February 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.5733S, -147.5955WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.71 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -147.5955 West, latitude 56.5733 North, depth = 15.71 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 00:47:59 / January 24, 2018 @ 12:47 am. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:47:59 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000ceht. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ceht.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and ninety-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.5955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.5733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Gulf of Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-24 00:47:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 05:44:29 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 246 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 2.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us1000ceht Id of event.
Event Code 1000ceht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ceht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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