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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7723S, -173.2152WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 82 km SE of Atka, Alaska (51 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/19 / 2019-05-27 17:38:47 / May 27, 2019 @ 5:38 pm. Id of earthquake: us70003ycn. Event ids that are associated: ak0196recmsy, us70003ycn. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -173.2152° West, 51.7723° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:38:47 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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 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: 82 km SE of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.2152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SE 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 2019-05-27 17:38:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-13 17:33:49 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 168 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 0.744 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 209 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 us70003ycn Id of event.
Event Code 70003ycn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0196recmsy,us70003ycn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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