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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3428S, 177.6237WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0211c9gwuu, us6000dd3t. Id of event: us6000dd3t. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.06 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:27:52 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/01/21 / 2021-01-29 18:27:52 / January 29, 2021 @ 6:27 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 177.6237° East, latitude 51.3428° North, depth = 41.06 km.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.6237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-29 18:27:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-30 17:04:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 ,ak,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 2.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000dd3t Id of event.
Event Code 6000dd3t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0211c9gwuu,us6000dd3t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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