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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Chernabura Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.3796S, -158.4187WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 98 km NE of Chernabura Island, Alaska (61 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.58 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us200062x5. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13631798, us200062x5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/16 / 2016-06-03 22:32:52 / June 3, 2016 @ 10:32 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -158.4187 West, latitude 55.3796 North, depth = 35.58 km. The temblor was reported at 11:32:52 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 98 km NE of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.4187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.3796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NE of Chernabura 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 2016-06-03 22:32:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-18 03:11:14 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 121 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 0.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us200062x5 Id of event.
Event Code 200062x5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13631798,us200062x5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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