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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 86 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 50.6902S, -179.946WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 86 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (53 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 22:58:40 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70007jxe. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007jxe. Exact location of event, longitude -179.946 West, latitude 50.6902 North, depth = 6.87 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 10:58:40 / January 26, 2020 @ 10:58 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.87 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km SW of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.946° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.6902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2020-01-26 10:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-12 12:35:25 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 211 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 ,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 0.836 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us70007jxe Id of event.
Event Code 70007jxe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007jxe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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