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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Cooper Landing in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.7312S, -150.0128WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Cooper Landing in Alaska. Id of earthquake: ak0255srkp81. Event ids that are associated: ak0255srkp81, at00svv56p. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 23:28:00 / May 6, 2025 @ 11:28 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.5 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0128 West, latitude 60.7312 North, depth = 33.5 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cooper Landing in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:28:00 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Knik-Fairview, Kalifornsky, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Elmendorf Air Force Base (c. 6 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km NNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.0128° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.7312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km NNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-06 23:28:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-06 23:31:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 247 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,at, 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 0.6 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 ak0255srkp81 Id of event.
Event Code 0255srkp81 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0255srkp81,at00svv56p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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