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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2952S, -174.5172WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -174.5172 West, latitude 52.2952 North, depth = 215.8 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 215.8 km (134 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak0201dtlydx. Event ids that are associated: ak0201dtlydx. Global time and date of event 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 12:57:57 / January 30, 2020 @ 12:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:57:57 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -174.5172° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 215.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-30 12:57:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-10 21:10:04 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 158 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 0.44 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 ak0201dtlydx Id of event.
Event Code 0201dtlydx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0201dtlydx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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