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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Gambell in Alaska


Earthquake location 63.2504S, -172.2197WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 63 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska (39 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 17:20:20 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 04:20:20 / January 19, 2018 @ 4:20 am. Unique identifier: ak18106577. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18106577. Exact location of event, longitude -172.2197 West, latitude 63.2504 North, depth = 5.6 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 63 km SSW of Gambell, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.2197° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.2504° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SSW of Gambell, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-19 04:20:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-19 20:50:03 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 199 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak18106577 Id of event.
Event Code 18106577 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18106577, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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