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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.7457S, 178.7606WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 28 km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (17 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: us10004s28. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004s28. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.7606 East, latitude 51.7457 North, depth = 75.17 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.17 km (47 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/16 / 2016-02-19 22:07:38 / February 19, 2016 @ 10:07 pm. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:07:38 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7606° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SE of Little Sitkin 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 2016-02-19 22:07:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-05 05:10:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 222 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 2.539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us10004s28 Id of event.
Event Code 10004s28 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004s28, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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