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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.42S, -163.706WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (98 miles) on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/06/15 / 2015-06-12 13:09:59 / June 12, 2015 @ 1:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.4 km (38 miles). Unique identifier: us20002ph4. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11623944, us20002ph4. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:09:59 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.706 West, latitude 53.42 North, depth = 60.4 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.42° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km 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 2015-06-12 13:09:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-10 19:45:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 148 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20002ph4 Id of event.
Event Code 20002ph4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11623944,us20002ph4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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