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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 68 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3462S, 179.4094WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 68 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (42 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us20003hlf. Event ids that are associated: us20003hlf, ak11687260. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:13 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 05:48:13 / August 28, 2015 @ 5:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.4094 East, latitude 51.3462 North, depth = 41.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 41.5 km (26 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 68 km S of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.4094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3462° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km S 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 2015-08-28 05:48:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-20 06:58:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 ,us,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20003hlf Id of event.
Event Code 20003hlf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003hlf,ak11687260, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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