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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near the Aleutian Islands


Earthquake location 49.9707S, 179.7398WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, south of the Aleutian Islands (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 17:03:54 / March 20, 2019 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.7398 East, latitude 49.9707 North, depth = 11.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0193mxljo2. Unique identifier: ak0193mxljo2. The temblor was reported at 17:03:54 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: south of the Aleutian Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.7398° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 49.9707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Aleutian Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-20 17:03:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-15 16:44:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak0193mxljo2 Id of event.
Event Code 0193mxljo2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0193mxljo2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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