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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 73 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9091S, -171.7793WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 73 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (45 miles) on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0199qzauuv, us60004yaw. Id of event: us60004yaw. Exact location of earthquake, -171.7793° West, 51.9091° North, depth 37.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.4 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 22:45:45 / July 31, 2019 @ 10:45 pm. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:45:45 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.7793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km SSW 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 2019-07-31 22:45:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 23:23:54 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 211 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 1.521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us60004yaw Id of event.
Event Code 60004yaw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0199qzauuv,us60004yaw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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