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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 101 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska


Earthquake location 53.3015S, -165.1527WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 101 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -165.1527 West, latitude 53.3015 North, depth = 35.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.7 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000dsys. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19280565, us1000dsys. The temblor was picked up at 08:57:34 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 19:57:34 / April 26, 2018 @ 7:57 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 101 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.1527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.3015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km SSE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-26 19:57:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-08 23:12:57 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 222 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 0.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 us1000dsys Id of event.
Event Code 1000dsys An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19280565,us1000dsys, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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