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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3766S, 179.832WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 km SSE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (40 miles) on Sunday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:09:19 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 26.4 km, 179.832° East, 51.3766° North. Id of earthquake: us10007t65. Event ids that are associated: ak15069000, us10007t65. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.4 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 08:09:19 / January 8, 2017 @ 8:09 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 65 km SSE of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.832° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SSE 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 2017-01-08 08:09:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-04 09:30:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 168 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 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 us10007t65 Id of event.
Event Code 10007t65 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15069000,us10007t65, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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