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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Chernabura Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4828S, -159.6337WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 145 km S of Chernabura Island, Alaska (90 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.6337 West, latitude 53.4828 North, depth = 25.4 km. The temblor was reported at 23:08:57 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/11/19 / 2019-11-04 10:08:57 / November 4, 2019 @ 10:08 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019e5jj62y, us7000630b. Unique identifier: us7000630b. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.4 km (16 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 145 km S of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6337° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km S of Chernabura 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 2019-11-04 10:08:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-08 12:26:36 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 168 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 1.351 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 232 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 us7000630b Id of event.
Event Code 7000630b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019e5jj62y,us7000630b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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