Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Buldir Island in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska (34 miles). Exact location, longitude 175.8789° East, latitude 51.8651° North, depth = 49.6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/11/19 / 2019-11-02 16:57:23 / November 2, 2019 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us700062d9. Event ids that are associated: ak019e2cbg4p, us700062d9. The epicenter was at a depth of 49.6 km (31 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:57:23 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km S of Buldir Island, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.8789° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.8651° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km 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	2019-11-02 16:57:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-18 18:00:22	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	,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	1.393	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	us700062d9	Id of event.
Event Code	700062d9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019e2cbg4p,us700062d9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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