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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Posted by admin on August 3, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.2942S, -169.5769WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.5 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:00:05 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -169.5769 West, latitude 52.2942 North, depth = 35.5 km. Global time and date of event 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 13:00:05 / July 28, 2015 @ 1:00 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11660578. Id of event: ak11660578.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.5769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fox 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 2015-07-28 13:00:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-03 17:40:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 178 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 0.58 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 ak11660578 Id of event.
Event Code 11660578 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11660578, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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