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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.7745S, -165.7138WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 40 km S of Akutan, Alaska (25 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0192w8ttmk, us1000jle9. Id of event: us1000jle9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90.85 km (56 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:30:51 / 4:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -165.7138° West, 53.7745° North, depth 90.85 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 03:30:51 / March 4, 2019 @ 3:30 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 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: 40 km S of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.7138° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km S 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 2019-03-04 03:30:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-26 01:54:50 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 199 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 0.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us1000jle9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jle9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0192w8ttmk,us1000jle9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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