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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5773S, 177.8293WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqp5, ak024bmon57b. Unique identifier: us6000nqp5. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 16:25:17 / September 9, 2024 @ 4:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.66 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 60.66 km, 177.8293° East, 51.5773° North. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:25:17 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.8293° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.66 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 2024-09-09 16:25:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-09 17:03:10 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 2.379 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000nqp5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqp5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqp5,ak024bmon57b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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