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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Little Sitkin Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 52.0046S, 178.4464WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 7 km NNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (4 miles) on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 178.4464 East, latitude 52.0046 North, depth = 122.12 km. The temblor was reported at 16:47:31 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.12 km (76 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15829125, us10008pxr. Id of event: us10008pxr. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 02:47:31 / April 29, 2017 @ 2:47 am.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.4464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW 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 2017-04-29 02:47:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-11 22:16:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 0.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us10008pxr Id of event.
Event Code 10008pxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15829125,us10008pxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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