Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 142 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 142 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (88 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/19 / 2019-05-17 03:24:05 / May 17, 2019 @ 3:24 am. Unique identifier: us70003y5y. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0196amk28e, us70003y5y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 178.8653 East, latitude 50.6859 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:24:05 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 142 km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.8653° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.6859° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	142km S of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-17 03:24:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-11 22:57:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	211	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	1.801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	323	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	us70003y5y	Id of event.
Event Code	70003y5y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0196amk28e,us70003y5y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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