Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Attu Station in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 63 km SW of Attu Station, Alaska (39 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 00:06:34 / September 28, 2024 @ 12:06 am. Unique identifier: us6000p015. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p015. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 172.6186 East, latitude 52.3936 North, depth = 21.096 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:06:34 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.096 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 63 km SW of Attu Station, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	172.6186° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.3936° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.096 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km SW of Attu Station, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-28 00:06:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-21 23:32:11	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	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	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.964	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	179	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	us6000p015	Id of event.
Event Code	6000p015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000p015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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