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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 75 km WSW of Amukta Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3362S, -172.3361WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 75 km WSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (47 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:06:42 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 19:06:42 / March 10, 2018 @ 7:06 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18667172, us1000d4ji. Unique identifier: us1000d4ji. Exact location, longitude -172.3361° West, latitude 52.3362° North, depth = 101.44 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.44 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 75 km WSW of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.3361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3362° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km WSW 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 2018-03-10 19:06:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-20 22:57:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 199 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 1.051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us1000d4ji Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4ji An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18667172,us1000d4ji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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