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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on September 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.6782S, 178.089WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 178.089 East, latitude 51.6782 North, depth = 59.9 km. The temblor was reported at 17:08:44 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.9 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/15 / 2015-09-08 02:08:44 / September 8, 2015 @ 2:08 am. Unique identifier: ak11695615. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11695615.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km SW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of Little Sitkin 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 2015-09-08 02:08:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-08 20:25:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak11695615 Id of event.
Event Code 11695615 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11695615, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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