Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 41 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (25 miles) on Friday. Id of earthquake: ak11682761. Event ids that are associated: ak11682761. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/15 / 2015-08-21 12:31:50 / August 21, 2015 @ 12:31 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.7 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:31:50 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -165.4106 West, latitude 53.8264 North, depth = 52.7 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km SE of Akutan, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-165.4106° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.8264° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km SE 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	2015-08-21 12:31:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-27 17:57:55	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	178	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	29	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	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176.399985888	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	ak11682761	Id of event.
Event Code	11682761	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11682761,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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