Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Kiska Volcano in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 184 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (114 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.73 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.9976 East, latitude 50.4904 North, depth = 12.73 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak14787625, us10007nfs. Unique identifier: us10007nfs. The temblor was reported at 23:52:41 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/16 / 2016-12-25 11:52:41 / December 25, 2016 @ 11:52 am.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 184 km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	176.9976° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.4904° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	184km SSW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-25 11:52:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-15 11:11:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	1.706	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	254	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	us10007nfs	Id of event.
Event Code	10007nfs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak14787625,us10007nfs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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