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


Earthquake location 51.4094S, 178.7658WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.296 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 18:08:55 / May 9, 2024 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:08:55 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.7658 East, latitude 51.4094 North, depth = 39.296 km. Event id: us6000n0ij. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0245zamut2, us6000n0ij.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7658° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.296 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 2024-05-09 18:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 16:30:06 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 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us6000n0ij Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0ij An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0245zamut2,us6000n0ij, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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