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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.2151S, -173.6735WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 118 km NNE of Atka, Alaska (73 miles). Id of earthquake: us200064yu. Event ids that are associated: ak13647610, us200064yu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 223 km (139 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -173.6735° West, latitude 53.2151° North, depth = 223 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 21:48:38 / June 14, 2016 @ 9:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 09:48:38 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 118 km NNE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.6735° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.2151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 223 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km NNE 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 2016-06-14 21:48:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-01 22:21:35 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 222 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 0.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us200064yu Id of event.
Event Code 200064yu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13647610,us200064yu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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