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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Yunaska Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2582S, -170.0615WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 59 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (37 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019dtxo5n0, us700063i4. Unique identifier: us700063i4. The temblor was reported at 21:24:31 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/19 / 2019-10-28 08:24:31 / October 28, 2019 @ 8:24 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.0615 West, latitude 52.2582 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 59 km SE of Yunaska Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.0615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SE of Yunaska 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 08:24:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 06:44:32 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 234 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 0.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us700063i4 Id of event.
Event Code 700063i4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019dtxo5n0,us700063i4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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