Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 141 km E of Atka, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 141 km E of Atka, Alaska (88 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -172.1359 West, latitude 52.2159 North, depth = 9.476 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.476 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000p034. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000p034. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:02:01 / 12:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 12:02:01 / December 7, 2024 @ 12:02 pm.

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 nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 141 km E of Atka, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-172.1359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.2159° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.476 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	141 km E 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	2024-12-07 12:02:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-21 06:59:54	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	188	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.269	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197	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	us7000p034	Id of event.
Event Code	7000p034	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p034,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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