Issued: November 24, 1997 Prepared by: Lalitha Rao No. 47- 97 The following is a list of significant earthquakes during the time period November 17 - 23, 1997 November 17 at 05:04 UTC (November 16, 08:04 pm AST), mb 5.1, 51 N 49', 176 W 5', depth = 47 km (29 mi): A moderate earthquake felt in Adak, was located by NEIC in the Andreanof Islands region of Alaska about 25 mi ( 40 km) E of Adak 85 mi (136 km) WSW of Atka 178 mi (287 km) W of Amukta Pass 212 mi (342 km) E of Amchitka 315 mi (508 km) WSW of Nikolski November 17 at 10:27 UTC (01:27 am AST), ML 5.3, 51 N 53', 170 W 0', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A moderate earthquake was located in the Fox Islands region of Alaska about 87 mi (141 km) SW of Nikolski 91 mi (147 km) ESE of Amukta Pass 181 mi (291 km) E of Atka 200 mi (322 km) SW of Unalaska 201 mi (324 km) SW of Dutch Harbor November 17 at 13:58 UTC (04:58 am AST), mb 4.8, 52 N 15', 170 W 6', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Fox Islands region of Alaska about 70 mi (113 km) SW of Nikolski 81 mi (131 km) E of Amukta Pass 175 mi (281 km) E of Atka 186 mi (300 km) SW of Unalaska 188 mi (302 km) SW of Dutch Harbor November 17 at 15:58 UTC (06:58 am AST), mb 4.3, 52 N 27', 170 W 5', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Fox Islands region of Alaska about 61 mi ( 99 km) WSW of Nikolski 82 mi (131 km) E of Amukta Pass 176 mi (283 km) E of Atka 178 mi (286 km) WSW of Unalaska 179 mi (288 km) WSW of Dutch Harbor November 18 at 06:16 UTC (November 17, 09:16 pm AST), ML 4.2, 60 N 35', 150 W 55', depth = 45 km (28 mi): A light earthquake felt in Soldotna and kasilof, was located in the Kenai Peninsula region of Alaska about 6 mi ( 10 km) WNW of Sterling 8 mi ( 13 km) NE of Soldotna 12 mi ( 19 km) E of Kenai 21 mi ( 33 km) NE of Kasilof 29 mi ( 47 km) NNE of Clam Gulch November 22 at 07:55 UTC (November 21, 10:55 pm AST), ML 4.4, 60 N 19', 153 W 4', depth = 147 km (91 mi): A light earthquake was located in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska about 44 mi ( 70 km) E of Port Alsworth 52 mi ( 83 km) NE of Pedro Bay 52 mi ( 83 km) WNW of Ninilchik 57 mi ( 92 km) NW of Anchor Point 58 mi ( 93 km) W of Clam Gulch November 23 at 04:27 UTC (November 22, 07:27 pm AST), mb 4.2, 51 N 18', 178 W 31', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Andreanof Islands region of Alaska about 89 mi (144 km) WSW of Adak 109 mi (175 km) E of Amchitka 195 mi (314 km) WSW of Atka 249 mi (401 km) ESE of Buldir Is 288 mi (464 km) WSW of Amukta Pass November 23 at 06:58 UTC (November 22, 09:58 pm AST), MS 4.8, 52 N 16', 170 W 8', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Fox Islands region of Alaska about 71 mi (114 km) SW of Nikolski 80 mi (128 km) E of Amukta Pass 173 mi (279 km) E of Atka 187 mi (300 km) SW of Unalaska 188 mi (303 km) SW of Dutch Harbor November 23 at 07:11 UTC ( November 22, 10:11 pm AST), mb 4.7, 51 N 20', 179 W 25', depth fixed at 33 km (21 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Andreanof Islands region of Alaska about 70 mi (113 km) E of Amchitka 125 mi (201 km) WSW of Adak 212 mi (341 km) ESE of Buldir Is 232 mi (373 km) WSW of Atka 292 mi (470 km) ESE of Shemya Is November 23 at 15:00 UTC (06:00 am AST), mb 4.6, 51 N 56', 179 E 28', depth = 108 km (67 mi): A light earthquake was located by NEIC in the Rat Islands region of Alaska about 34 mi ( 55 km) NE of Amchitka 153 mi (247 km) E of Buldir Is 166 mi (267 km) W of Adak 233 mi (375 km) ESE of Shemya Is 271 mi (436 km) W of Atka _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE DEPTH PREF. RMS SEH SEZ GAP PHASES MIN Q T REGION, OTHER MAGNITUDES, FELT REPORTS AND COMMENTS YR MO DY HR MN SEC DEG MIN DEG MIN KM MAG SEC. KM KM DEG P S DIS _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 97 11 17 4 4 43.71 60 13.97N 152 34.51W 93.1 2.5 0.19 1.39 1.71 91 15 13 27 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 17 5 4 34.82 51 48.72N 176 5.16W 47.3 5.1mb R ANDREANOF ISLS. 97 11 17 5 40 32.16 64 56.08N 147 1.32W 13.5 1.6 0.25 1.36 1.70 114 12 7 18 A E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 17 5 55 4.73 63 14.95N 151 15.04W 12.7 2.5 0.24 4.66 2.28 171 17 10 87 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 17 10 27 57.74 51 52.88N 170 0.04W 33.0G 5.3 0.73 50.57 67.61 223 14 7 298 D E FOX ISLS. 97 11 17 13 58 53.95 52 14.82N 170 5.76W 33.0N 4.8mb R FOX ISLS. MS 4.6 (NEIS). 97 11 17 13 58 53.85 52 24.42N 170 11.58W 33.0N 4.7mb R FOX ISLS. 97 11 17 15 58 29.54 52 26.58N 170 4.74W 33.0N 4.3mb R FOX ISLS. 97 11 17 15 58 29.56 52 36.00N 170 10.08W 33.0N 4.2mb R FOX ISLS. 97 11 17 16 40 21.29 62 38.76N 149 38.02W 64.5 1.6 0.26 3.46 5.18 118 15 9 37 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 17 21 28 18.53 58 16.27N 154 56.93W 0.0 1.1 0.08 3.90 16.36 278 8 4 10 D a ALASKA PEN. 97 11 17 21 35 27.23 61 23.00N 149 19.99W 26.7 1.4 0.23 1.97 3.38 69 14 9 20 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 17 21 58 40.36 60 52.48N 148 4.50W 27.6 1.7 0.39 0.68 1.09 51 19 11 14 A E KENAI PEN. 97 11 17 23 21 34.20 59 59.67N 153 16.36W 126.2 2.8 0.22 2.04 2.54 69 24 14 11 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 17 23 55 38.99 62 22.73N 149 15.48W 51.4 2.8 0.25 1.51 4.95 70 14 7 52 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 18 1 8 35.35 62 0.40N 148 31.06W 38.5 1.5 0.09 4.07 4.30 58 15 7 24 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 18 1 13 4.96 61 18.73N 146 51.20W 22.9 1.0 0.12 1.82 4.19 76 14 5 32 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 18 1 17 25.80 57 23.31N 155 36.07W 70.6 1.5 0.35 45.50 56.55 341 6 4 74 D E ALASKA PEN. 97 11 18 2 44 25.09 58 9.66N 155 23.47W 0.0 1.0 0.12 0.70 79.83 70 11 7 7 D a ALASKA PEN. 97 11 18 6 16 41.62 60 34.71N 150 55.05W 45.5 4.2 0.25 0.54 2.04 57 36 13 25 A E KENAI PEN. 97 11 18 6 22 56.80 61 1.77N 149 1.73W 27.2 1.7 0.14 1.74 3.81 62 15 5 18 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 8 0 6.05 60 32.21N 144 43.68W 23.1 2.8 0.10 1.37 1.68 92 15 6 17 A E CAPE YAKATAGA. 97 11 18 10 7 55.61 61 29.42N 148 18.39W 12.9 0.7 0.16 2.69 2.93 55 13 6 12 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 18 10 10 29.31 61 10.03N 150 13.02W 27.4 2.2 0.29 1.87 5.79 59 16 7 23 C E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 11 32 23.74 60 54.57N 152 18.18W 100.6 1.9 0.14 9.11 15.12 90 13 3 18 D E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 13 12 35.14 62 16.70N 148 30.47W 33.4 2.0 0.11 2.78 6.56 78 9 4 53 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 18 13 13 51.61 58 21.68N 155 6.71W 3.8 0.1 0.07 6.55 7.57 256 5 4 6 C a ALASKA PEN. 97 11 18 13 31 58.41 63 43.08N 147 45.47W 19.0 1.9 0.22 3.77 5.88 65 14 6 58 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 18 14 28 32.71 60 14.99N 152 31.55W 98.2 2.0 0.13 7.89 10.03 98 11 4 28 D E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 15 52 50.07 60 33.60N 150 57.66W 47.3 1.4 0.36 6.44 20.26 108 8 5 25 D E KENAI PEN. 97 11 18 15 53 1.82 61 5.93N 151 33.12W 73.4 1.8 0.24 8.35 15.76 98 10 4 29 D E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 19 26 33.62 59 26.98N 152 19.14W 54.3 2.7 0.19 0.93 3.41 94 25 9 37 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 18 21 45 50.17 62 37.48N 151 3.23W 14.6 1.3 0.47 6.71 5.18 163 15 4 47 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 18 21 45 58.29 60 26.76N 152 3.07W 77.7 1.8 0.26 5.72 10.91 92 10 5 24 D E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 1 50 26.92 59 56.89N 152 57.07W 122.3 1.6 0.35 4.42 4.10 112 15 6 7 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 2 33 29.50 60 12.76N 153 0.88W 128.8 3.2 0.24 3.37 2.61 71 32 13 15 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 5 17 41.24 61 20.24N 150 29.61W 8.9 1.5 0.35 1.02 1.17 96 18 9 19 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 6 46 20.09 60 37.18N 142 44.53W 20.1 2.0 0.46 1.16 1.55 73 15 6 16 A E CAPE YAKATAGA. 97 11 19 7 8 40.91 59 51.51N 153 7.09W 112.3 3.0 0.25 1.02 1.83 53 27 23 11 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 8 41 36.30 59 15.67N 153 17.23W 108.4 2.7 0.22 1.37 2.45 81 24 16 11 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 9 34 37.14 61 40.06N 150 3.02W 35.1 2.2 0.25 1.07 1.67 57 18 16 9 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 19 12 9 32.84 63 2.94N 150 50.65W 129.3 2.5 0.17 4.80 4.50 92 19 12 62 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 19 12 52 50.91 63 13.81N 150 48.92W 134.5 2.0 0.27 5.72 5.93 162 15 8 66 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 19 18 56 42.01 62 10.09N 148 4.46W 40.3 1.5 0.22 2.79 4.91 80 15 8 42 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 19 20 14 51.18 59 53.74N 151 33.96W 64.5 2.3 0.22 1.37 2.57 80 20 17 23 B E KENAI PEN. 97 11 19 20 44 2.34 59 48.12N 140 27.92W 9.7 2.1 0.20 1.45 3.34 164 14 7 35 B E YAKUTAT BAY. 97 11 19 23 35 47.55 60 31.34N 141 15.75W 12.4 0.7 0.20 0.98 1.67 129 6 5 32 A E YAKUTAT BAY. 97 11 19 23 59 14.14 61 42.89N 149 20.92W 35.3 1.6 0.20 0.97 1.92 66 15 14 18 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 20 2 23 34.40 59 59.29N 140 47.48W 3.2 1.7 0.19 5.46 3.26 154 13 8 20 C E YAKUTAT BAY. 97 11 20 4 58 53.82 60 3.70N 148 54.03W 3.1 1.9 0.14 3.72 7.57 173 17 4 31 C E KENAI PEN. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATE TIME LATITUDE LONGITUDE DEPTH PREF. RMS SEH SEZ GAP PHASES MIN Q T REGION, OTHER MAGNITUDES, FELT REPORTS AND COMMENTS YR MO DY HR MN SEC DEG MIN DEG MIN KM MAG SEC. KM KM DEG P S DIS _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 97 11 20 8 58 46.03 60 30.96N 146 56.29W 20.0 1.2 0.26 2.22 8.17 66 15 6 27 C E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 20 11 58 39.32 63 14.38N 150 54.51W 19.1 2.2 0.34 7.02 6.36 98 16 6 71 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 20 16 3 54.68 61 20.88N 146 19.06W 29.6 1.9 0.20 1.31 2.76 55 20 8 24 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 20 19 56 23.65 60 22.64N 147 36.24W 15.0 1.3 0.09 1.21 9.01 58 10 5 40 C E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 20 20 21 30.22 61 30.99N 147 45.84W 35.0 1.7 0.14 1.19 4.08 76 20 7 37 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 20 21 8 8.93 59 51.99N 153 17.65W 114.8 2.3 0.11 7.49 8.37 120 12 5 16 C E COOK INLET. 97 11 20 23 22 22.29 61 29.84N 146 33.26W 0.0 1.4 0.16 0.97 2.06 74 11 4 34 A E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 20 23 55 26.28 62 28.91N 151 8.06W 83.9 2.8 0.12 8.23 9.05 98 20 5 45 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 21 2 20 50.85 58 32.90N 143 22.99W 10.0G 2.6 0.23 9.29 19.04 227 16 5 165 D E GULF OF ALASKA. 97 11 21 3 12 41.46 61 28.28N 146 24.01W 15.0 1.3 0.28 2.42 4.14 60 17 9 26 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 21 4 27 38.83 54 18.74N 162 25.12W 1.5 3.6 0.34 4.58 5.77 219 16 12 89 C E ALASKA PEN. 97 11 21 4 57 47.08 61 52.08N 149 35.01W 37.4 1.4 0.24 0.85 2.54 121 15 9 29 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 21 9 31 27.41 61 24.40N 147 7.15W 12.5 0.8 0.11 1.21 3.40 112 8 8 43 B E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 21 9 32 1.61 61 22.94N 149 53.41W 36.2 1.6 0.27 1.36 2.13 89 17 8 22 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 21 11 7 47.58 64 46.19N 149 15.39W 14.9 1.7 0.29 0.97 1.24 118 11 7 23 A E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 21 12 14 30.76 58 55.16N 152 46.58W 66.6 2.1 0.26 1.74 3.30 102 16 9 41 B E KODIAK IS REG. 97 11 21 13 16 51.05 64 32.60N 147 4.10W 4.8 1.7 0.20 1.35 4.22 111 15 6 16 B E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 21 13 18 10.84 58 14.47N 155 10.53W 4.0 0.6 0.05 1.61 1.77 148 5 3 1 A a ALASKA PEN. 97 11 21 16 46 3.63 60 38.00N 143 7.39W 11.6 0.6 0.16 2.13 1.62 194 6 4 14 A E CAPE YAKATAGA. 97 11 21 20 5 47.18 60 33.77N 149 33.73W 33.9 3.1 0.26 0.91 1.76 67 17 9 14 A E KENAI PEN. 97 11 21 22 13 34.59 62 58.40N 150 18.74W 87.6 1.5 0.08 6.96 5.70 221 6 2 34 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 21 22 26 24.64 60 21.99N 151 59.84W 74.4 1.9 0.33 1.23 1.99 78 16 12 32 A E KENAI PEN. 97 11 22 1 32 15.55 60 3.61N 153 12.91W 115.7 1.6 0.35 8.29 11.83 85 14 5 4 D E COOK INLET. 97 11 22 7 55 8.87 60 18.87N 153 3.70W 147.0 4.4 0.28 1.39 1.63 147 32 6 20 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 22 8 11 12.77 60 15.45N 152 13.88W 82.0 2.0 0.19 6.20 7.34 61 15 5 35 C E COOK INLET. 97 11 22 15 6 5.21 62 34.40N 151 15.60W 83.8 2.8 0.16 6.63 6.23 76 14 4 54 C E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 22 15 44 36.88 60 37.89N 147 35.23W 12.5 2.4 0.12 0.85 1.92 80 16 7 39 A E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 22 17 28 42.43 60 6.24N 152 34.90W 83.5 2.6 0.21 1.99 5.97 46 15 7 21 C E COOK INLET. 97 11 22 18 49 38.01 63 22.20N 145 10.56W 8.5 2.4 0.18 1.89 3.60 93 17 3 29 B E E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 23 0 56 13.15 59 56.48N 153 15.59W 122.1 2.8 0.35 1.86 1.86 132 15 15 11 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 23 1 43 20.43 61 4.80N 149 29.92W 36.2 1.9 0.20 1.37 1.46 71 19 11 19 A E COOK INLET. 97 11 23 3 2 53.49 61 1.01N 152 16.11W 109.1 2.2 0.22 3.68 4.45 131 15 7 20 B E COOK INLET. 97 11 23 4 6 27.47 60 21.85N 150 50.91W 45.8 2.0 0.15 1.23 4.33 87 19 15 43 B E KENAI PEN. 97 11 23 4 27 22.28 51 18.18N 178 30.78W 33.0N 4.2mb R ANDREANOF ISLS. 97 11 23 6 58 7.15 52 15.54N 170 7.56W 33.0N 4.8Ms R FOX ISLS. 97 11 23 7 11 13.98 51 19.50N 179 24.72W 33.0N 4.7mb R ANDREANOF ISLS. 97 11 23 13 36 5.84 62 52.23N 149 39.87W 82.9 2.1 0.19 1.66 1.45 142 16 12 12 A E CENTRAL AK. 97 11 23 13 56 8.46 61 33.44N 146 22.22W 33.5 2.0 0.34 1.07 1.88 68 19 10 25 A E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 23 15 0 45.62 51 55.62N 179 27.96E 107.5 4.6mb R RAT ISLS. 97 11 23 15 18 17.78 61 13.16N 146 52.84W 15.2 1.1 0.30 0.77 6.85 78 11 7 24 C E PR WILLIAM SOUND. 97 11 23 20 28 25.00 63 2.64N 149 31.75W 79.9 2.5 0.22 2.67 2.84 104 16 11 9 B E CENTRAL AK.