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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 14 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8375S, 178.4025WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 14 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/16 / 2016-02-08 01:44:35 / February 8, 2016 @ 1:44 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:44:35 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak12842916, us200050r8. Unique identifier: us200050r8. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 101 km (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 178.4025° East, 51.8375° North, depth 101 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 14 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.4025° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW 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 2016-02-08 01:44:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-18 05:21:53 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 138 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us200050r8 Id of event.
Event Code 200050r8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12842916,us200050r8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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