Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5207S, 177.7194WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 65 km S of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (40 miles). Global time and date of event 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 01:55:59 / March 15, 2020 @ 1:55 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 13:55:59 / 1:55 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0203g28dn9, us70008fry. Id of event: us70008fry. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 177.7194 East, latitude 51.5207 North, depth = 35 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

How would you describe the shaking?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 65 km S of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.7194° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5207° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km S of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-15 01:55:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 01:43:41 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 138 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 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us70008fry Id of event.
Event Code 70008fry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0203g28dn9,us70008fry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply