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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 50 km S of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7481S, -174.1347WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 50 km S of Atka, Alaska (31 miles). Id of earthquake: ak13995994. Event ids that are associated: ak13995994. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/16 / 2016-09-17 01:36:30 / September 17, 2016 @ 1:36 am. The temblor was detected at 13:36:30 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -174.1347° West, 51.7481° North, depth 43.9 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.9 km (27 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km S of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.1347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km S 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 2016-09-17 01:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-17 22:08:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5246161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273.599978112 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 ak13995994 Id of event.
Event Code 13995994 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13995994, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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