Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 10 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (6 miles). Global time and date of event 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 08:26:05 / September 12, 2017 @ 8:26 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000aq5l. Event ids that are associated: ak16821026, us2000aq5l. The temblor was detected at 22:26:05 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 228.97 km (142 miles). Exact location, longitude -174.2778° West, latitude 52.1101° North, depth = 228.97 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-174.2778° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.1101° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	228.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSW 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	2017-09-12 08:26:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-24 13:40:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	138	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	0.104	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	us2000aq5l	Id of event.
Event Code	2000aq5l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak16821026,us2000aq5l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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