Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 09:42:14 / February 11, 2016 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.5059 East, latitude 50.5556 North, depth = 139.5 km. Unique identifier: ak12797716. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12797716. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 139.5 km (87 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:42:14 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-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.

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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. 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: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.5059° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.5556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	139.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Rat 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	2016-02-11 09:42:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-15 18:43:50	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	148	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.053549	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	241.199980704	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	ak12797716	Id of event.
Event Code	12797716	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12797716,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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