Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Aleneva in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Aleneva in Alaska on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -153.1488 West, latitude 58.1275 North, depth = 34.8 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.8 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/25 / 2025-04-25 19:17:02 / April 25, 2025 @ 7:17 pm. Id of earthquake: ak0255ai7sp2. Event ids that are associated: at00svag8e, ak0255ai7sp2. A tsunami warning has been issued near Aleneva in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:17:02 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Kodiak (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kodiak (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 15 km WNW of Aleneva, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-153.1488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.1275° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km WNW of Aleneva, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-25 19:17:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-25 19:31:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	automatic	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	316	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	,at,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	0.7 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	ak0255ai7sp2	Id of event.
Event Code	0255ai7sp2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00svag8e,ak0255ai7sp2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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