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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 77 km S of Amukta Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8086S, -171.4687WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 77 km S of Amukta Island, Alaska (48 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/18 / 2018-05-27 06:41:25 / May 27, 2018 @ 6:41 am. The temblor was reported at 19:41:25 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.57 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -171.4687 West, latitude 51.8086 North, depth = 36.57 km. Unique identifier: us1000ek8a. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19670162, us1000ek8a.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 77 km S of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.4687° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km S of Amukta 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 2018-05-27 06:41:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-17 10:58:09 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 138 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 1.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ek8a Id of event.
Event Code 1000ek8a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19670162,us1000ek8a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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