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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0472S, -179.9116WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 61 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (38 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 09:04:20 / January 26, 2020 @ 9:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -179.9116° West, latitude 51.0472° North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us70007jxf. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007jxf. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:04:20 / 9:04 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 61 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.9116° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km WSW 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 2020-01-26 09:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-12 11:45:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 222 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 ,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 0.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us70007jxf Id of event.
Event Code 70007jxf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007jxf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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