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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Yunaska Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6068S, -170.1479WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 120 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (75 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 16:04:19 / July 22, 2015 @ 4:04 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11653447, us200030nf. Id of event: us200030nf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.1479 West, latitude 51.6068 North, depth = 20.1 km. The temblor was detected at 05:04:19 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.1 km (12 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one hundred and thirty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 120 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.1479° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6068° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-22 16:04:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-07 00:26:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 168 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 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 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 us200030nf Id of event.
Event Code 200030nf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11653447,us200030nf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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