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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Atka in Alaska


Earthquake location 52.0699S, -173.8129WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 30 km ESE of Atka, Alaska (19 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 18:52:28 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -173.8129° West, 52.0699° North, depth 79.702 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.702 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000nebk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak024byar90f, us7000nebk. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 18:52:28 / September 16, 2024 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 30 km ESE of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -173.8129° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.0699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.702 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 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 2024-09-16 18:52:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 21:03:28 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 3.04 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 ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.27 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us7000nebk Id of event.
Event Code 7000nebk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024byar90f,us7000nebk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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