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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Yunaska Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.2353S, -170.4837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 46 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (29 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:35:59 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.4837 West, latitude 52.2353 North, depth = 39 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 05:35:59 / September 9, 2017 @ 5:35 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16786015, us2000alzw. Id of event: us2000alzw. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.4837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2353° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSE of Yunaska 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 2017-09-09 05:35:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-28 05:29:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 178 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 0.86 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 us2000alzw Id of event.
Event Code 2000alzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16786015,us2000alzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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