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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6912S, -164.2955WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 108 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (67 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak13911137. Unique identifier: ak13911137. The temblor was picked up at 03:29:40 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/16 / 2016-09-05 14:29:40 / September 5, 2016 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -164.2955° West, 53.6912° North, depth 26.8 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.8 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 108 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.2955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km ESE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-05 14:29:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-17 22:05:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 178 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 21 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 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.599980992 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 ak13911137 Id of event.
Event Code 13911137 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13911137, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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