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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6075S, -163.9233WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 135 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (84 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.9233 West, latitude 53.6075 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 12:02:17 / October 27, 2019 @ 12:02 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us600063kd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600063kd. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:02:17 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 135 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.9233° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km ESE 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 2019-10-27 12:02:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-27 12:54:19 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 1.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us600063kd Id of event.
Event Code 600063kd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600063kd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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