Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 82 km WSW of Atka, Alaska (51 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -175.2099 West, latitude 51.7989 North, depth = 47.45 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47.45 km (29 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:12:25 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13835850, us10006c2m. Id of event: us10006c2m. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/16 / 2016-08-08 03:12:25 / August 8, 2016 @ 3:12 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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. 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: 82 km WSW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-175.2099° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7989° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km WSW 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	2016-08-08 03:12:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-23 01:34:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	0.482	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	194	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	us10006c2m	Id of event.
Event Code	10006c2m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13835850,us10006c2m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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