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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Little Diomede Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 66.4782S, -170.0681WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 98 km NNW of Little Diomede Island, Alaska (61 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.0681 West, latitude 66.4782 North, depth = 16.72 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:10:56 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008hpv. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15744662, us10008hpv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.72 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 11:10:56 / April 10, 2017 @ 11:10 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 98 km NNW of Little Diomede Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.0681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.4782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NNW of Little Diomede 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 2017-04-10 11:10:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-23 12:10:26 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 158 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 1.271 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us10008hpv Id of event.
Event Code 10008hpv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15744662,us10008hpv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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