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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4711S, -179.8418WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 56 km WNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (35 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.8418 West, latitude 51.4711 North, depth = 77.02 km. The temblor was detected at 23:25:31 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/02/16 / 2016-02-20 11:25:31 / February 20, 2016 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12858725, us10004te7. Id of event: us10004te7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.02 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 56 km WNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8418° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WNW 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 2016-02-20 11:25:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-04 09:06:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 0.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 us10004te7 Id of event.
Event Code 10004te7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12858725,us10004te7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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