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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Buldir Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7593S, 175.7642WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 67 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska (42 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:38:37 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 175.7642 East, latitude 51.7593 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us70009g89. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0205xfj5nn, us70009g89. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 05:38:37 / May 8, 2020 @ 5:38 am.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.7642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km S of Buldir 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 2020-05-08 05:38:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-25 08:49:43 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 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 1.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us70009g89 Id of event.
Event Code 70009g89 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205xfj5nn,us70009g89, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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