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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 49.9106S, 179.2691WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 189 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (117 miles). Global time and date of event 22/02/18 / 2018-02-22 13:13:28 / February 22, 2018 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000d6i7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18488969, us2000d6i7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.14 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.2691 East, latitude 49.9106 North, depth = 27.14 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:13:28 / 1:13 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 189 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2691° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km SW 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 2018-02-22 13:13:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-23 18:40:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 158 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 1.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 308 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 us2000d6i7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d6i7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18488969,us2000d6i7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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