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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.1741S, -164.5179WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 135 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (84 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 15:26:19 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000cjq1. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18055124, us2000cjq1. Exact location of event, depth 29.13 km, -164.5179° West, 53.1741° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 02:26:19 / January 15, 2018 @ 2:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.13 km (18 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 135 km SE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.5179° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1741° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km SE 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 2018-01-15 02:26:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-15 23:09:30 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 148 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 1.171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us2000cjq1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18055124,us2000cjq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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