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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.9397S, -179.3637WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 40 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (25 miles) on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16032653, us10008x9z. Id of event: us10008x9z. Exact location of event, longitude -179.3637 West, latitude 50.9397 North, depth = 9.21 km. The temblor was detected at 00:53:29 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/05/17 / 2017-05-14 12:53:29 / May 14, 2017 @ 12:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.21 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days four hundred and fourty, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 40 km SSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.3637° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9397° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW 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 2017-05-14 12:53:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-02 06:50:23 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 148 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 0.927 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233 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 us10008x9z Id of event.
Event Code 10008x9z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16032653,us10008x9z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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