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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 69 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on August 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.1288S, -178.1359WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 69 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (43 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -178.1359 West, latitude 51.1288 North, depth = 26.3 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.3 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:25:24 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 23:25:24 / August 2, 2016 @ 11:25 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13840384. Id of event: ak13840384.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1359° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1288° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km ESE of Amatignak 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 2016-08-02 23:25:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-11 16:10:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 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 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.799981856 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 ak13840384 Id of event.
Event Code 13840384 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13840384, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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