Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 16 km NNE of Atka, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 km NNE of Atka, Alaska (10 miles). Exact location of event, depth 176.82 km, -174.1456° West, 52.3388° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 176.82 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us100034l3. Event ids that are associated: ak11679643, us100034l3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/15 / 2015-08-16 09:26:05 / August 16, 2015 @ 9:26 am. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:26:05 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

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 eleven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.1456° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.3388° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	176.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNE 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	2015-08-16 09:26:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-04 09:34:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	234	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	0.038	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us100034l3	Id of event.
Event Code	100034l3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11679643,us100034l3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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