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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4392S, -163.164WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 157 km S of False Pass, Alaska (98 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -163.164 West, latitude 53.4392 North, depth = 9.27 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100072gg. Unique identifier: us100072gg. Global time and date of event 27/10/16 / 2016-10-27 15:55:09 / October 27, 2016 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.27 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:55:09 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 157 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.164° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km S of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-27 15:55:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-27 20:37:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 222 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 ,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 1.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us100072gg Id of event.
Event Code 100072gg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072gg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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