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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3112S, 179.4942WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.02 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 179.4942° East, latitude 51.3112° North, depth = 55.02 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:32:25 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/20 / 2020-07-01 15:32:25 / July 1, 2020 @ 3:32 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0208ewgx9j, us7000am44. Unique identifier: us7000am44.

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.4942° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3112° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.02 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 2020-07-01 15:32:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-12 22:13:50 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 168 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 0.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us7000am44 Id of event.
Event Code 7000am44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0208ewgx9j,us7000am44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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