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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Chernabura Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.1898S, -159.8784WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska (43 miles) on Friday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:57:55 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.8784 West, latitude 54.1898 North, depth = 20.85 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 09:57:55 / March 31, 2018 @ 9:57 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000dbuq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dbuq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.85 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8784° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SSW of Chernabura 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 2018-03-31 09:57:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 10:15:13 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 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 ,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 0.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000dbuq Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbuq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbuq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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