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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 50 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4375S, -178.2339WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 50 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (31 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 21.03 km, -178.2339° West, 51.4375° North. Global time and date of event 11/05/17 / 2017-05-11 00:36:30 / May 11, 2017 @ 12:36 am UTC/GMT. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:36:30 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008tat. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008tat, ak16018497. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.03 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days three hundred and four, in the past 30 days three hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 50 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.2339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-11 00:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-24 23:41:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 1.75 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 199 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 0.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us10008tat Id of event.
Event Code 10008tat An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008tat,ak16018497, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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