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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Chirik


Earthquake location 55.4519S, -152.2724WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 214 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska (133 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 14:08:56 / May 8, 2019 @ 2:08 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0195vx6bq0, us70003ibg. Id of event: us70003ibg. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.2724 West, latitude 55.4519 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 04:08:56 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 214 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.2724° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.4519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 214km E of Chirikof 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 2019-05-08 14:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-09 06:25:23 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 199 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 1.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us70003ibg Id of event.
Event Code 70003ibg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0195vx6bq0,us70003ibg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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