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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Amukta Island in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.1543S, -171.1006WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 38 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 00:23:52 / April 2, 2020 @ 12:23 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -171.1006 West, latitude 52.1543 North, depth = 33.32 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02049t4gfo, us70008ls3. Id of event: us70008ls3. The temblor was detected at 13:23:52 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.32 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -171.1006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.1543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSE of Amukta 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 2020-04-02 00:23:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-19 02:28:46 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 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 0.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 us70008ls3 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ls3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02049t4gfo,us70008ls3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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