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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Yunaska Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.3411S, -169.66WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 77 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (48 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:51:05 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005h8n. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13531478, us10005h8n. Exact location of earthquake, -169.66° West, 52.3411° North, depth 33.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 07:51:05 / May 8, 2016 @ 7:51 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.1 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 77 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.66° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3411° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km ESE 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 2016-05-08 07:51:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-04 07:01:47 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 188 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 1.53 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005h8n Id of event.
Event Code 10005h8n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13531478,us10005h8n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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