Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 95 km SE of Akutan, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 95 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (59 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:43:22 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -164.7784° West, latitude 53.5052° North, depth = 14.48 km. Unique identifier: us10004qxv. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12856260, us10004qxv. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.48 km (9 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/16 / 2016-02-18 15:43:22 / February 18, 2016 @ 3:43 pm.

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

Did you feel anything?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km SE of Akutan, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Akutan Alaska

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-164.7784° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.5052° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95km SE 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	2016-02-18 15:43:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-15 21:20:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	234	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	0.815	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us10004qxv	Id of event.
Event Code	10004qxv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12856260,us10004qxv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 95 km SE of Akutan, Alaska

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information