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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Arctic Ocean


Earthquake location 80.9309S, -113.8041WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Arctic Ocean (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/01/18 / 2018-01-04 21:00:43 / January 4, 2018 @ 9:00 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000cjfb. Event ids that are associated: us2000cjfb. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:00:43 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.97 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -113.8041 West, latitude 80.9309 North, depth = 14.97 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -113.8041° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 80.9309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Arctic Ocean Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-04 21:00:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-14 23:08:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 211 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 ,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 4.592 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us2000cjfb Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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