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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.3575S, -173.2549WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 66 km ENE of Atka, Alaska (41 miles) on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0196pu6nt, us2000j0bv. Id of event: us2000j0bv. Global time and date of event 04/01/19 / 2019-01-04 06:19:48 / January 4, 2019 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -173.2549 West, latitude 52.3575 North, depth = 92.99 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 92.99 km (58 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:48 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 66 km ENE of Atka, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.2549° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.3575° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ENE 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 2019-01-04 06:19:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-06 09:32:16 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 178 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 0.599 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 178 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 us2000j0bv Id of event.
Event Code 2000j0bv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0196pu6nt,us2000j0bv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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