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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5391S, 179.3775WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 48 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (30 miles). Global time and date of event 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 07:45:39 / June 9, 2018 @ 7:45 am UTC/GMT. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:45:39 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000eq45. Event ids that are associated: ak19736513, us1000eq45. The epicenter was at a depth of 81.3 km (51 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.3775 East, latitude 51.5391 North, depth = 81.3 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 48 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.3775° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SSW of Semisopochnoi 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 2018-06-09 07:45:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 09:40:21 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 199 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 0.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000eq45 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eq45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19736513,us1000eq45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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