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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4514S, -178.4654WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 49 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (30 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 07:05:42 / October 28, 2019 @ 7:05 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019dtwynrn, us700069rt. Unique identifier: us700069rt. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.52 km (10 miles). The temblor was detected at 21:05:42 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -178.4654° West, 51.4514° North, depth 15.52 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km ENE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4654° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4514° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ENE of Amatignak 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 2019-10-28 07:05:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 14:08:08 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 138 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 0.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us700069rt Id of event.
Event Code 700069rt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019dtwynrn,us700069rt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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