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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.178S, -164.1106WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 153 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (95 miles) on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/16 / 2016-02-12 20:03:28 / February 12, 2016 @ 8:03 pm. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:03:28 / 9:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -164.1106 West, latitude 53.178 North, depth = 22.87 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.87 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004ztg. Unique identifier: us20004ztg.

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 153 km SE of Akutan, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.1106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 153km SE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-12 20:03:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-12 22:05:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 1.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us20004ztg Id of event.
Event Code 20004ztg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004ztg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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