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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 90 km S of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3868S, -174.3046WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 90 km S of Atka, Alaska (56 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003gp3. Id of event: us20003gp3. The temblor was detected at 19:23:35 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.32 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.3046 West, latitude 51.3868 North, depth = 30.32 km. Global time and date of event 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 07:23:35 / September 5, 2015 @ 7:23 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km S of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3046° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km S of Atka, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-05 07:23:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 10:47:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 234 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 ,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 0.818 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us20003gp3 Id of event.
Event Code 20003gp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003gp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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