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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8876S, 179.5728WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 7 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (4 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 10:20:28 / January 25, 2020 @ 10:20 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.5728 East, latitude 51.8876 North, depth = 166.6 km. Event id: us70007j57. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02015iiec6, us70007j57. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 166.6 km (104 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:20:28 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5728° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8876° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 166.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSW of Semisopochnoi 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 2020-01-25 10:20:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-22 06:35:43 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 158 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 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us70007j57 Id of event.
Event Code 70007j57 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02015iiec6,us70007j57, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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