Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Buldir Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 164 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska (102 miles). Exact location, longitude 175.7243° East, latitude 50.8826° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:07:25 / 12:07 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003mm4. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11718370, us20003mm4. Global time and date of event 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 00:07:25 / September 15, 2015 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 164 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.7243° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.8826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	164km S of Buldir 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	2015-09-15 00:07:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-04 04:48:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	1.15 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	us20003mm4	Id of event.
Event Code	20003mm4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11718370,us20003mm4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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