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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Amukta Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0009S, -171.5091WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 21:30:44 / December 17, 2016 @ 9:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14751022, us10007lup. Id of event: us10007lup. Exact location of event, longitude -171.5091 West, latitude 52.0009 North, depth = 55.05 km. The temblor was detected at 10:30:44 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.05 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.5091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SSW of Amukta 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 2016-12-17 21:30:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-13 00:27:58 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 ,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 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us10007lup Id of event.
Event Code 10007lup An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14751022,us10007lup, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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