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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.9393S, 178.8538WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.8538 East, latitude 51.9393 North, depth = 78.95 km. Global time and date of event 27/01/21 / 2021-01-27 11:45:21 / January 27, 2021 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:45:21 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.95 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02118ucn78, us6000dcgi. Id of event: us6000dcgi.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.8538° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.9393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rat 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 2021-01-27 11:45:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-24 08:22:00 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 234 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 1.429 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000dcgi Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcgi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02118ucn78,us6000dcgi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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