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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0916S, -170.8541WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000cpuw. Event ids that are associated: us7000cpuw. Global time and date of event 07/12/20 / 2020-12-07 09:43:31 / December 7, 2020 @ 9:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -170.8541 West, latitude 52.0916 North, depth = 37.54 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:43:31 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 37.54 km (23 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.8541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-07 09:43:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-14 07:18:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 211 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 0.939 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us7000cpuw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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