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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.4253S, -167.0938WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 62 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska (39 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 28.31 km (18 miles). Exact location of event, depth 28.31 km, -167.0938° West, 53.4253° North. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:46:08 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/16 / 2016-05-21 12:46:08 / May 21, 2016 @ 12:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak13598969, us20005y0c. Unique identifier: us20005y0c.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -167.0938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.4253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SW of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-21 12:46:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-05 09:56:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 0.391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us20005y0c Id of event.
Event Code 20005y0c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13598969,us20005y0c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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