Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 17:16:14 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/02/17 / 2017-02-16 17:16:14 / February 16, 2017 @ 5:16 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.7 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak15279993. Unique identifier: ak15279993. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -174.7832 West, latitude 51.4221 North, depth = 27.7 km.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.7832° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.4221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-16 17:16:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-22 22:35:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	158	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	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	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak15279993	Id of event.
Event Code	15279993	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15279993,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

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