Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Amukta Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska (53 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0205vu7q1g, us70009e4l. Unique identifier: us70009e4l. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.57 km (23 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:11:01 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 09:11:01 / May 7, 2020 @ 9:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -171.717 West, latitude 51.7642 North, depth = 36.57 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 86 km SSW of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.717° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7642° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	86km SSW of Amukta 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	2020-05-07 09:11:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-13 05:56:21	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	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	1.553	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	220	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	us70009e4l	Id of event.
Event Code	70009e4l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0205vu7q1g,us70009e4l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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