Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska (65 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: ak16020446. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak16020446. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/17 / 2017-05-01 12:57:33 / May 1, 2017 @ 12:57 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.6 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:57:33 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.2532 East, latitude 51.0356 North, depth = 14.6 km.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km SSW of Semisopochnoi Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.2532° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.0356° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104km SSW of Semisopochnoi 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	2017-05-01 12:57:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-11 19:32:14	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	148	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	0.53 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	ak16020446	Id of event.
Event Code	16020446	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16020446,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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