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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 38 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5858S, -178.4369WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 38 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (24 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:25:01 / 5:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.4369 West, latitude 51.5858 North, depth = 16.95 km. Event id: us2000ad8s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16535054, us2000ad8s. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.95 km (11 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/17 / 2017-08-16 03:25:01 / August 16, 2017 @ 3:25 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 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: 38 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4369° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5858° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSW 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 2017-08-16 03:25:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-14 23:38:25 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 138 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 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us2000ad8s Id of event.
Event Code 2000ad8s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16535054,us2000ad8s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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