Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Amukta Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 165 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska (103 miles). Global time and date of event 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 01:15:28 / April 24, 2017 @ 1:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:15:28 / 2:15 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 40.71 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, depth 40.71 km, -171.0644° West, 51.7543° North. Id of earthquake: us10008nz8. Event ids that are associated: ak15891024, us10008nz8.

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

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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. 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: 165 km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.0644° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	165km SSE of Amukta 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	2017-04-24 01:15:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-04 02:01:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	1.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	214	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	us10008nz8	Id of event.
Event Code	10008nz8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15891024,us10008nz8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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