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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5799S, 178.8615WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles). Exact location, longitude 178.8615° East, latitude 51.5799° North, depth = 66 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/24 / 2024-07-16 13:31:55 / July 16, 2024 @ 1:31 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 13:31:55 / 1:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak02493oc44a. Event ids that are associated: ak02493oc44a.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.8615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 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 2024-07-16 13:31:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-16 14:32:39 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 3.226 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 222 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak02493oc44a Id of event.
Event Code 02493oc44a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02493oc44a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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