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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 59 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3537S, -178.1878WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 59 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (37 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.1878 West, latitude 51.3537 North, depth = 35 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17099629, us1000ax8e. Id of event: us1000ax8e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/17 / 2017-10-24 15:12:12 / October 24, 2017 @ 3:12 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:12:12 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km S of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3537° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2017-10-24 15:12:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-07 20:20:03 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 168 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 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 us1000ax8e Id of event.
Event Code 1000ax8e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17099629,us1000ax8e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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