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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2558S, -179.0409WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (2 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.18 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:37:40 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/18 / 2018-03-27 19:37:40 / March 27, 2018 @ 7:37 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18792287, us2000dvcg. Id of event: us2000dvcg. Exact location of event, depth 40.18 km, -179.0409° West, 51.2558° North.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-four 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.0409° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2558° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Amatignak 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 2018-03-27 19:37:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 21:27:44 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 234 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 0.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us2000dvcg Id of event.
Event Code 2000dvcg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18792287,us2000dvcg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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