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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Chernabura Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.2708S, -160.4277WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 178 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska (111 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:14:15 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.76 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.4277 West, latitude 53.2708 North, depth = 29.76 km. Id of earthquake: us1000axxb. Event ids that are associated: ak17105876, us1000axxb. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 11:14:15 / October 23, 2017 @ 11:14 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 178 km SSW of Chernabura Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.4277° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.2708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km SSW of Chernabura 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 2017-10-23 11:14:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-03 13:05:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 1.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 us1000axxb Id of event.
Event Code 1000axxb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17105876,us1000axxb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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