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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2516S, -178.2633WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 59 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (37 miles) on Saturday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:19:03 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.2633 West, latitude 51.2516 North, depth = 39.3 km. Unique identifier: us2000ckd0. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18047262, us2000ckd0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/18 / 2018-01-14 09:19:03 / January 14, 2018 @ 9:19 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.3 km (24 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 59 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2633° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km E 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 2018-01-14 09:19:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-28 07:43:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 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 us2000ckd0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000ckd0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18047262,us2000ckd0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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