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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3718S, -164.7983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 203 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska (126 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 14:49:16 / May 30, 2018 @ 2:49 pm. Event id: us1000emzx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19694086, us1000emzx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:49:16 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -164.7983 West, latitude 52.3718 North, depth = 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 203 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.7983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 203km SE of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-30 14:49:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 06:16:22 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 158 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 1.799 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us1000emzx Id of event.
Event Code 1000emzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19694086,us1000emzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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