Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 200 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 200 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska (124 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.94 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us600044a3. Unique identifier: us600044a3. The temblor was detected at 03:53:10 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 175.3755 East, latitude 50.5844 North, depth = 15.94 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/06/19 / 2019-06-21 15:53:10 / June 21, 2019 @ 3:53 pm.

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

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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: 200 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.3755° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.5844° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	200km S of Buldir 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	2019-06-21 15:53:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-21 16:20:28	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	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	,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	2.291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	us600044a3	Id of event.
Event Code	600044a3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600044a3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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