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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.7912S, 178.2892WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (14 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019cq8cmjp, us70005tqu. Id of event: us70005tqu. The temblor was picked up at 21:53:39 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 178.2892° East, 51.7912° North, depth 130.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 130.03 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/19 / 2019-10-04 07:53:39 / October 4, 2019 @ 7:53 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.2892° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Little Sitkin 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 2019-10-04 07:53:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 07:33:46 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 148 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 0.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us70005tqu Id of event.
Event Code 70005tqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019cq8cmjp,us70005tqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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