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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.345S, -165.2779WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 93 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (58 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/18 / 2018-01-05 10:30:13 / January 5, 2018 @ 10:30 am. Exact location of event, depth 38.49 km, -165.2779° West, 53.345° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.49 km (24 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000c12a. Event ids that are associated: us1000c12a. The temblor was picked up at 23:30:13 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 93 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.2779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km SSE 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 2018-01-05 10:30:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-05 12:19:37 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 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 ,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 0.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us1000c12a Id of event.
Event Code 1000c12a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c12a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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