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

Posted by admin on October 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.3712S, -178.4202WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 49 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us1000awub. Event ids that are associated: ak17091357, us1000awub. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.47 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:19:26 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/17 / 2017-10-21 12:19:26 / October 21, 2017 @ 12:19 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -178.4202° West, 51.3712° North, depth 1.47 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.47 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 2017-10-21 12:19:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-27 08:05:07 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 138 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 0.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 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 us1000awub Id of event.
Event Code 1000awub An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17091357,us1000awub, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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