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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 km SE of Atka, Alaska (34 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:38:05 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qw6z. Event ids that are associated: ak025btbgq76, us7000qw6z. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/25 / 2025-09-14 17:38:05 / September 14, 2025 @ 5:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -173.6462 West, latitude 51.8502 North, depth = 18.846 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.846 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km SE of Atka, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-173.6462° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.8502° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.846 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km SE 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	2025-09-14 17:38:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-14 18:53:04	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	2.459	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	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us7000qw6z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qw6z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak025btbgq76,us7000qw6z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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