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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Amukta Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6979S, -171.2905WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 88 km S of Amukta Island, Alaska (55 miles) on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.18 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35.18 km, -171.2905° West, 51.6979° North. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18440583, us2000d3zp. Unique identifier: us2000d3zp. Global time and date of event 17/02/18 / 2018-02-17 10:31:28 / February 17, 2018 @ 10:31 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:31:28 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 88 km S of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.2905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km S of Amukta 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 2018-02-17 10:31:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-14 10:19:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 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 1.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us2000d3zp Id of event.
Event Code 2000d3zp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18440583,us2000d3zp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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