Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 43 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 43 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (27 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 06:35:08 / May 5, 2018 @ 6:35 am. Exact location of event, depth 77.49 km, -165.1409° West, 54.0197° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.49 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19317830, us1000e07i. Id of event: us1000e07i. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:35:08 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-165.1409° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.0197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km ESE 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	2018-05-05 06:35:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-17 06:58:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	199	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	0.34	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000e07i	Id of event.
Event Code	1000e07i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak19317830,us1000e07i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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