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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Amatignak Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2892S, -178.4692WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 44 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska (27 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak18647236, us1000d4dm. Unique identifier: us1000d4dm. Exact location of event, longitude -178.4692 West, latitude 51.2892 North, depth = 35 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:25:57 / 4:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/03/18 / 2018-03-09 16:25:57 / March 9, 2018 @ 4:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 44 km E of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2892° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E 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 2018-03-09 16:25:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-08 15:56:04 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 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 0.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us1000d4dm Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4dm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18647236,us1000d4dm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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