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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Dutch Harbor in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.0072S, -166.9556WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 30 km WNW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska (19 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:38:33 / 3:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -166.9556 West, latitude 54.0072 North, depth = 160.02 km. Id of earthquake: us70006b3j. Event ids that are associated: us70006b3j. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 160.02 km (99 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 13:38:33 / November 14, 2019 @ 1:38 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km WNW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -166.9556° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.0072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 160.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WNW of Dutch Harbor, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-14 13:38:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-02 21:40:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 234 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 0.312 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us70006b3j Id of event.
Event Code 70006b3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006b3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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