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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 88 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2363S, -169.5658WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 88 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (55 miles). Id of earthquake: us20006egx. Event ids that are associated: ak13756055, us20006egx. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:09:28 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -169.5658 West, latitude 52.2363 North, depth = 20.74 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 23:09:28 / July 8, 2016 @ 11:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.74 km (13 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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: 88 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -169.5658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2016-07-08 23:09:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 04:58:48 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 199 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 0.559 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us20006egx Id of event.
Event Code 20006egx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13756055,us20006egx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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