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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Unalaska in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.8357S, -166.7758WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 116 km S of Unalaska, Alaska (72 miles) on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 22:28:35 / August 15, 2024 @ 10:28 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000n7ae. Event ids that are associated: ak024ahfsqha, us7000n7ae. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:28:35 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -166.7758° West, latitude 52.8357° North, depth = 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 116 km S of Unalaska, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -166.7758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.8357° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 km S of Unalaska, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-15 22:28:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-16 02:33:39 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 1 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 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 us7000n7ae Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7ae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024ahfsqha,us7000n7ae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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