Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 67 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 67 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska (42 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.9621 East, latitude 51.1095 North, depth = 38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007jx8. Id of event: us70007jx8. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:55:04 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 11:55:04 / January 26, 2020 @ 11:55 am UTC/GMT.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 67 km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.9621° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.1095° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-26 11:55:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-13 06:10:27	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	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	0.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	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	us70007jx8	Id of event.
Event Code	70007jx8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007jx8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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