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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4564S, -178.4944WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 47 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (29 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.24 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 13:10:48 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 23:10:48 / March 14, 2019 @ 11:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -178.4944° West, 51.4564° North, depth 55.24 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0193d3zjx3, us1000jg2h. Id of event: us1000jg2h.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 47 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4944° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km ENE 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 2019-03-14 23:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-14 23:52:33 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 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 0.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 258 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 us1000jg2h Id of event.
Event Code 1000jg2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193d3zjx3,us1000jg2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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