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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 40 km SSW of Atka, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8499S, -174.3709WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 40 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (25 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.7 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -174.3709° West, 51.8499° North, depth 24.7 km. Id of earthquake: ak12351581. Event ids that are associated: ak12351581. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:58:57 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 20:58:57 / December 30, 2015 @ 8:58 pm.

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 seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 40 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.3709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8499° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSW 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 2015-12-30 20:58:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-04 21:09:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 158 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 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 0.67 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 ak12351581 Id of event.
Event Code 12351581 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12351581, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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