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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.5816S, -178.4661WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 40 km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (25 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 01:10:58 / May 10, 2017 @ 1:10 am. Id of earthquake: us10008r1d. Event ids that are associated: us10008r1d, ak16016346. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.4661 West, latitude 51.5816 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:10:58 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-10 01:10:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-18 22:44:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 1.6 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 188 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,ak, 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 0.86 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us10008r1d Id of event.
Event Code 10008r1d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008r1d,ak16016346, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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