Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Akutan in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 65 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (40 miles). Unique identifier: us10002ni2. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002ni2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.03 km (52 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -164.8803° West, 53.8671° North, depth 83.03 km. The temblor was reported at 01:01:53 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 09:01:53 / July 5, 2015 @ 9:01 am.

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 65 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-164.8803° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.8671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km ESE 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	2015-07-05 09:01:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-05 09:15:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	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,	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	0.59	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	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	us10002ni2	Id of event.
Event Code	10002ni2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002ni2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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