Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 50 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 50 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (31 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.7051 West, latitude 51.0113 North, depth = 5.77 km. Unique identifier: us1000dpr6. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19242597, us1000dpr6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/04/18 / 2018-04-18 18:52:40 / April 18, 2018 @ 6:52 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.77 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:52:40 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter).

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 eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.7051° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.0113° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km WSW 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	2018-04-18 18:52:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-30 23:13:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	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	222	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	0.725	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243	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	us1000dpr6	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dpr6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak19242597,us1000dpr6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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