Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Unalaska in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 61 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska (38 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:11:47 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -165.8713 West, latitude 53.4856 North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000ntpz. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntpz, ak024c8755ac. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 17:11:47 / September 22, 2024 @ 5:11 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 61 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-165.8713° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.4856° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61 km SE 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	2024-09-22 17:11:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-22 17:27:04	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	2.239	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	,us,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.521	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000ntpz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ntpz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ntpz,ak024c8755ac,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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