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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4339S, -165.3524WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 82 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (51 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.01 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -165.3524° West, 53.4339° North, depth 33.01 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 18:31:35 / March 20, 2019 @ 6:31 pm. Event id: us1000jjf9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jjf9. The temblor was reported at 07:31:35 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.3524° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2019-03-20 18:31:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-20 22:16:52 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 0.8 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000jjf9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjf9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjf9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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