Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Atka in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 174 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (108 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.013 km (25 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000n0d8. Event ids that are associated: ak0246kvm6fd, us6000n0d8. The temblor was reported at 23:12:04 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/05/24 / 2024-05-22 23:12:04 / May 22, 2024 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -171.7427° West, 51.8101° North, depth 41.013 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 174 km ESE of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-171.7427° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.8101° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.013 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	174 km ESE of Atka, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-22 23:12:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-12 02:03:47	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	1.511	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	211	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.487	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us6000n0d8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n0d8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0246kvm6fd,us6000n0d8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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