Minor earthquake 3 mag, 82 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 82 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (51 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 14:36:06 / August 8, 2015 @ 2:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 178.2685° East, 51.2237° North, depth 10.1 km. The temblor was detected at 02:36:06 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ak11673136. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11673136.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.2685° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.2237° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-08 14:36:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-17 09:48:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6620584	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	295.199976384	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	ak11673136	Id of event.
Event Code	11673136	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11673136,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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