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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 33 km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6437S, -178.444WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 33 km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (21 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 10:10:54 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.3 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 20:10:54 / May 9, 2017 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -178.444 West, latitude 51.6437 North, depth = 12.3 km. Id of earthquake: us10008v7e. Event ids that are associated: ak16130271, us10008v7e.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ten, in the last 10 days five hundred and six, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-nine 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 33 km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km 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 2017-05-09 20:10:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-03 17:11:39 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 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 ,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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us10008v7e Id of event.
Event Code 10008v7e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16130271,us10008v7e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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