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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8946S, -173.6443WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 50 km SE of Atka, Alaska (31 miles). Unique identifier: us2000d8ze. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18457325, us2000d8ze. The temblor was picked up at 03:33:09 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 183.14 km (114 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 13:33:09 / February 19, 2018 @ 1:33 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -173.6443 West, latitude 51.8946 North, depth = 183.14 km.

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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km SE of Atka, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.6443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 183.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km SE 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 2018-02-19 13:33:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-05 19:14:51 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 234 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 0.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us2000d8ze Id of event.
Event Code 2000d8ze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak18457325,us2000d8ze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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