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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.1483S, -165.9207WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 68 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska (42 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:10:59 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13766459, us20006gzq. Id of event: us20006gzq. Exact location of earthquake, -165.9207° West, 53.1483° North, depth 35 km. Global time and date of event 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 11:10:59 / July 18, 2016 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 68 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.9207° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SSE 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 2016-07-18 11:10:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-31 07:28:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 199 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 0.78 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20006gzq Id of event.
Event Code 20006gzq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13766459,us20006gzq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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