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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Haines Junction in Canada

Posted by admin on April 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.872S, -138.2476WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 42 km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada (26 miles) on Friday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:07:28 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.66 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -138.2476 West, latitude 60.872 North, depth = 7.66 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/18 / 2018-04-21 07:07:28 / April 21, 2018 @ 7:07 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dprg, ak19248262, ak19248256. Id of event: us1000dprg.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -138.2476° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.872° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-21 07:07:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-21 07:25:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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,ak,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 0.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us1000dprg Id of event.
Event Code 1000dprg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dprg,ak19248262,ak19248256, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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