Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Amatignak Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 69 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska (43 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:25:24 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13840384, us10006d0b. Id of event: us10006d0b. Exact location of earthquake, -178.1359° West, 51.1288° North, depth 26.3 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 23:25:24 / August 2, 2016 @ 11:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.3 km (16 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 69 km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.1359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.1288° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km ESE of Amatignak Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-02 23:25:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-22 01:06:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-720	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	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	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	us10006d0b	Id of event.
Event Code	10006d0b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13840384,us10006d0b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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