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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 51 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.4199S, -170.0208WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 51 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (32 miles) on Thursday. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:55:58 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 150.84 km, -170.0208° West, 52.4199° North. Global time and date of event 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 07:55:58 / December 30, 2016 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 150.84 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10007qhm. Event ids that are associated: ak14847841, us10007qhm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.0208° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.4199° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km 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 2016-12-30 07:55:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-26 10:51:15 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 0.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us10007qhm Id of event.
Event Code 10007qhm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak14847841,us10007qhm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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