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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.1496S, -165.2917WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 114 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (71 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000d7ga. Event ids that are associated: ak020gtgxhu1, us6000d7ga. The temblor was picked up at 10:47:25 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/20 / 2020-12-31 10:47:25 / December 31, 2020 @ 10:47 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -165.2917 West, latitude 53.1496 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska. This data 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 -165.2917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.1496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-31 10:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-27 14:17:44 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 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 1.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us6000d7ga Id of event.
Event Code 6000d7ga An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020gtgxhu1,us6000d7ga, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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