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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6268S, -178.7213WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 48 km NNE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.7213 West, latitude 51.6268 North, depth = 76.78 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 76.78 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:36:13 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000bvqi. Event ids that are associated: ak17389672, us2000bvqi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/17 / 2017-11-25 12:36:13 / November 25, 2017 @ 12:36 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 48 km NNE of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7213° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NNE 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 2017-11-25 12:36:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-03 11:10:01 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 129 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 0.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us2000bvqi Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvqi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17389672,us2000bvqi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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