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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2968S, -173.2279WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 67 km E of Atka, Alaska (42 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/03/18 / 2018-03-21 15:02:09 / March 21, 2018 @ 3:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:02:09 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000d74r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18721887, us1000d74r. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.2279 West, latitude 52.2968 North, depth = 135.46 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 135.46 km (84 miles).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 67 km E of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.2279° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2968° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 135.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km E of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-21 15:02:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 21:03:25 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 211 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 0.507 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us1000d74r Id of event.
Event Code 1000d74r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18721887,us1000d74r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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