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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 84 km SSE of Shemya Island, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9914S, 174.4501WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 84 km SSE of Shemya Island, Alaska (52 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 06:05:53 / February 3, 2019 @ 6:05 am. Event id: us2000jn83. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jn83. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.69 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 174.4501° East, latitude 51.9914° North, depth = 35.69 km. The temblor was detected at 18:05:53 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter).

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 three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 km SSE of Shemya Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4501° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9914° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SSE of Shemya 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 2019-02-03 06:05:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-04 11:09:44 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 188 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 ,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 0.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 us2000jn83 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jn83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jn83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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