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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 16 km WNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3128S, -179.3285WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 16 km WNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:28:56 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20009lz5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009lz5. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.3285 West, latitude 51.3128 North, depth = 38.12 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.12 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/17 / 2017-06-06 22:28:56 / June 6, 2017 @ 10:28 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days four hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 16 km WNW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.3285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW 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 2017-06-06 22:28:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-24 02:34:00 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 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 211 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 0.862 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us20009lz5 Id of event.
Event Code 20009lz5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lz5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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