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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 19 km WSW of Petersville, Alaska

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Earthquake location 62.4445S, -151.1256WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 km WSW of Petersville, Alaska (12 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:38:56 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 18:38:56 / August 6, 2025 @ 6:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.7 km (52 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025a0u3q2q. Id of event: ak025a0u3q2q. Exact location, longitude -151.1256° West, latitude 62.4445° North, depth = 83.7 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km WSW of Petersville, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.1256° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.4445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km WSW of Petersville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-08-06 18:38:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 18:42:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 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 0.79 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 ak025a0u3q2q Id of event.
Event Code 025a0u3q2q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak025a0u3q2q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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