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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Tanaga Volcano in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.4944S, -178.352WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 45 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (28 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:40 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19006453, us2000dyhj. Id of event: us2000dyhj. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.28 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.352 West, latitude 51.4944 North, depth = 13.28 km. Global time and date of event 06/04/18 / 2018-04-06 05:58:40 / April 6, 2018 @ 5:58 am UTC/GMT.

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 seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 45 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.352° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-06 05:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-22 05:35:59 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 0.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us2000dyhj Id of event.
Event Code 2000dyhj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19006453,us2000dyhj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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