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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6912S, -166.1357WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:40:58 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004e9b. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12452884, us10004e9b. Global time and date of event 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 21:40:58 / January 8, 2016 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -166.1357 West, latitude 53.6912 North, depth = 70.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 70.03 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km SE of Unalaska, 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 -166.1357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SE of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-08 21:40:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-31 06:36:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 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 0.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 us10004e9b Id of event.
Event Code 10004e9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12452884,us10004e9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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