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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.051S, 177.2483WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 24 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (15 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Exact location, longitude 177.2483° East, latitude 52.051° North, depth = 20 km. Event id: ak13649616. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13649616. The temblor was reported at 02:22:26 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 11:22:26 / June 9, 2016 @ 11:22 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.2483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km WSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-09 11:22:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 19:32:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 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 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197.99998416 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 ak13649616 Id of event.
Event Code 13649616 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13649616, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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