Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 173.5578 East, latitude 51.8848 North, depth = 20 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak12118761. Unique identifier: ak12118761. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:11:33 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/12/15 / 2015-12-01 14:11:33 / December 1, 2015 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	173.5578° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.8848° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-01 14:11:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-04 02:16:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	188	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	5	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	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	284.399977248	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	ak12118761	Id of event.
Event Code	12118761	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12118761,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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