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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 53 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0683S, -170.8805WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 53 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska (33 miles) on Tuesday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:12:15 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000j90w. Event ids that are associated: ak0191zbbqbv, us1000j90w. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.8805 West, latitude 52.0683 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 12:12:15 / February 12, 2019 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, 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 has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.8805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SSE 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 2019-02-12 12:12:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-13 07:32:39 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 1.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 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 us1000j90w Id of event.
Event Code 1000j90w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0191zbbqbv,us1000j90w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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