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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4667S, -163.7017WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 155 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (96 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -163.7017 West, latitude 53.4667 North, depth = 19.28 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:01:00 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000beek. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020advmomk, us6000beek. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.28 km (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/20 / 2020-08-13 07:01:00 / August 13, 2020 @ 7:01 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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 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: 155 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.7017° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 155 km 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 2020-08-13 07:01:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 07:04:39 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 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 1.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us6000beek Id of event.
Event Code 6000beek An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020advmomk,us6000beek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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