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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 53 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4176S, -178.3204WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 53 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (33 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.01 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -178.3204° West, latitude 51.4176° North, depth = 8.01 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 09:39:09 / December 3, 2017 @ 9:39 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17441201, us1000bmm1. Unique identifier: us1000bmm1. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:39:09 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-03 09:39:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-18 07:07:10 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 0.444 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 198 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 us1000bmm1 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmm1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17441201,us1000bmm1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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