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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 49.6475S, -178.3789WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 186 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (116 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:27:49 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.3789 West, latitude 49.6475 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000h6aj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20238833, us2000h6aj. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/18 / 2018-08-31 20:27:49 / August 31, 2018 @ 8:27 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 186 km SSE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.6475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km SSE 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 2018-08-31 20:27:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-01 15:02:21 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 178 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 2.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 263 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 us2000h6aj Id of event.
Event Code 2000h6aj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20238833,us2000h6aj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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