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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Chernabura Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 55.1732S, -159.5869WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 42 km N of Chernabura Island, Alaska (26 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:23:08 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -159.5869 West, latitude 55.1732 North, depth = 21.16 km. Global time and date of event 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 22:23:08 / July 15, 2016 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.16 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20006f2v. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13758040, us20006f2v.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.5869° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.1732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km N 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 2016-07-15 22:23:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 03:15:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us20006f2v Id of event.
Event Code 20006f2v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13758040,us20006f2v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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