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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.2019S, -179.2549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 83 km ENE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (52 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.2549 West, latitude 52.2019 North, depth = 217.7 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/02/18 / 2018-02-10 04:56:42 / February 10, 2018 @ 4:56 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 217.7 km (135 miles). Unique identifier: ak18419418. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18419418. The temblor was picked up at 16:56:42 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km ENE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.2549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2019° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 217.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km ENE of Semisopochnoi 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 2018-02-10 04:56:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-20 01:53:40 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 0.53 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 ak18419418 Id of event.
Event Code 18419418 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18419418, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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