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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0738S, -179.0491WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 21 km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska (13 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.07 km (32 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/17 / 2017-08-18 16:27:41 / August 18, 2017 @ 4:27 pm. Exact location of event, depth 52.07 km, -179.0491° West, 51.0738° North. The temblor was reported at 06:27:41 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000adp0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16557824, us2000adp0.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 21 km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.0491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0738° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S 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 2017-08-18 16:27:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-02 18:53:49 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 199 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 0.709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us2000adp0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000adp0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16557824,us2000adp0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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