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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.7485S, -164.5661WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 90 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (56 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.8 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 03:18:47 / December 15, 2019 @ 3:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:18:47 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak019g18gdtt. Unique identifier: ak019g18gdtt. Exact location of event, longitude -164.5661 West, latitude 53.7485 North, depth = 25.8 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 90 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -164.5661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.7485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2019-12-15 03:18:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-22 21:09:16 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak019g18gdtt Id of event.
Event Code 019g18gdtt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019g18gdtt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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