Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mqjv, ak02477yc4mm. Unique identifier: us7000mqjv. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:41:16 / 6:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 124.066 km (77 miles). Global time and date of event 05/06/24 / 2024-06-05 18:41:16 / June 5, 2024 @ 6:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 177.9268 East, latitude 51.603 North, depth = 124.066 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	177.9268° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.603° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	124.066 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	2024-06-05 18:41:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-05 19:01:43	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	2.597	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	,us,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.534	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	us7000mqjv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mqjv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mqjv,ak02477yc4mm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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