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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Earthquake location 50.2196S, 177.259WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (0 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 23:25:04 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 177.259° East, latitude 50.2196° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak024bg6nsgu, us6000nq06. Unique identifier: us6000nq06. Global time and date of event 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 23:25:04 / September 5, 2024 @ 11:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.259° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.2196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2024-09-05 23:25:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-08 21:51:01 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 199 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 1.74 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 us6000nq06 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nq06 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024bg6nsgu,us6000nq06, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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