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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2055S, 178.0317WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 178.0317 East, latitude 52.2055 North, depth = 139.16 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:11:34 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.16 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 03/06/20 / 2020-06-03 10:11:34 / June 3, 2020 @ 10:11 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aa59. Id of event: us6000aa59.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.0317° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2055° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 139.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-03 10:11:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-02 08:48:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 129 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 1.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us6000aa59 Id of event.
Event Code 6000aa59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aa59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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