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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on June 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3872S, -178.4236WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 49 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.63 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us10008ubh. Ids that are associated to the event: ak16108048, us10008ubh. The temblor was detected at 16:38:18 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 02:38:18 / May 23, 2017 @ 2:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -178.4236° West, latitude 51.3872° North, depth = 9.63 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 49 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3872° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ENE 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 2017-05-23 02:38:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-17 19:26:52 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 2.35 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 0.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us10008ubh Id of event.
Event Code 10008ubh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16108048,us10008ubh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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