Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 213 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (132 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 22:04:37 / August 16, 2020 @ 10:04 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -171.2461 West, latitude 51.6017 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:04:37 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bibj. Unique identifier: us6000bibj.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 213 km ESE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.2461° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.6017° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	213 km ESE of Atka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-16 22:04:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-23 22:30:10	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	222	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	1.924	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	184	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	us6000bibj	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bibj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bibj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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