Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 44 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (27 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:42:36 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 16:42:36 / November 19, 2015 @ 4:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.6 km (20 miles). Id of earthquake: ak12015502. Event ids that are associated: ak12015502. Exact location, longitude -178.4981° West, latitude 51.1489° North, depth = 31.6 km.

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

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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: 44 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.4981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.1489° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km ESE of Amatignak 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	2015-11-19 16:42:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-24 23:59:51	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	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	17	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	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212.399983008	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	ak12015502	Id of event.
Event Code	12015502	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12015502,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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