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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Yunaska Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.1295S, -170.4205WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 58 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (36 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/19 / 2019-08-05 12:32:55 / August 5, 2019 @ 12:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:32:55 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.4205 West, latitude 52.1295 North, depth = 32 km. Event id: us600050t4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0199z2zchw, us600050t4.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 58 km SSE of Yunaska Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.4205° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km SSE of Yunaska 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 2019-08-05 12:32:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-09 11:36:57 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 222 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 1.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us600050t4 Id of event.
Event Code 600050t4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0199z2zchw,us600050t4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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