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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6694S, 179.0724WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13835675. Id of event: ak13835675. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/16 / 2016-08-08 00:29:21 / August 8, 2016 @ 12:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.0724 East, latitude 51.6694 North, depth = 71 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:29:21 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71 km (44 miles).

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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.0724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-08 00:29:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-20 18:12:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 30 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 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136.799989056 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 ak13835675 Id of event.
Event Code 13835675 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13835675, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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