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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0673S, -179.8673WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (35 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.5 km (25 miles). Unique identifier: us1000ci0q. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18193429, us1000ci0q. Global time and date of event 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 00:26:22 / January 25, 2018 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.8673 West, latitude 51.0673 North, depth = 39.5 km. The temblor was reported at 12:26:22 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 57 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8673° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW 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 2018-01-25 00:26:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-10 23:56:39 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 1 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 222 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 0.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us1000ci0q Id of event.
Event Code 1000ci0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18193429,us1000ci0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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