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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Chignik Lake in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 9, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 56.6028S, -157.591WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 83 km ENE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (52 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0198yprweg, us70004k31. Unique identifier: ak0198yprweg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 13:40:08 / July 14, 2019 @ 1:40 pm. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:40:08 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -157.591 West, latitude 56.6028 North, depth = 74.5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.5 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 83 km ENE of Chignik Lake, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -157.591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.6028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km ENE of Chignik Lake, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 13:40:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 00:07:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 223 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak 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 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 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 ak0198yprweg Id of event.
Event Code 0198yprweg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0198yprweg,us70004k31, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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