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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Yunaska Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.493S, -170.2193WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 07:13:52 / February 13, 2020 @ 7:13 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: av62136086, us70007pt3. Id of event: us70007pt3. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.92 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:13:52 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -170.2193 West, latitude 52.493 North, depth = 5.92 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 35 km ESE of Yunaska Island, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -170.2193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km ESE 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 2020-02-13 07:13:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-15 10:30:43 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 234 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 ,av,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 0.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us70007pt3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007pt3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,av62136086,us70007pt3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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