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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 1, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3267S, -179.135WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 km N of Amatignak Island, Alaska (6 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 56.35 km (35 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.135 West, latitude 51.3267 North, depth = 56.35 km. The temblor was reported at 16:00:08 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak16031108, us10008x8x. Unique identifier: us10008x8x. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/17 / 2017-05-14 02:00:08 / May 14, 2017 @ 2:00 am.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days four hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km N of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.135° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3267° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Amatignak 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 2017-05-14 02:00:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-01 22:36:02 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 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 168 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 0.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us10008x8x Id of event.
Event Code 10008x8x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16031108,us10008x8x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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