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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 81 km ESE of Chernabura Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4999S, -158.3962WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 81 km ESE of Chernabura Island, Alaska (50 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -158.3962° West, 54.4999° North, depth 17.58 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak13521020, us10005h0z. Unique identifier: us10005h0z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.58 km (11 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:52:17 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/05/16 / 2016-05-06 14:52:17 / May 6, 2016 @ 2:52 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-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. 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: 81 km ESE of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km ESE of Chernabura 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 2016-05-06 14:52:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-20 10:10:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 188 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 0.768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us10005h0z Id of event.
Event Code 10005h0z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13521020,us10005h0z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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