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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 50.225S, 177.1959WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Tuesday. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:04:42 / 9:04 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000pxlw. Event ids that are associated: ak0255sq8wys, us7000pxlw. Global time and date of event 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 21:04:42 / May 6, 2025 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 177.1959° East, latitude 50.225° North, depth = 17.607 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.607 km (11 miles).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.1959° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.607 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 2025-05-06 21:04:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-07 00:50:55 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 199 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pxlw Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxlw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0255sq8wys,us7000pxlw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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