Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Cold Bay in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 128 km SSE of Cold Bay, Alaska (80 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11653451, us200030ng. Id of event: us200030ng. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:18:26 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -161.7788° West, latitude 54.1686° North, depth = 20.4 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 16:18:26 / July 22, 2015 @ 4:18 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 128 km SSE of Cold Bay, 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	-161.7788° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.1686° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	128km SSE of Cold Bay, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-22 16:18:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-13 01:11:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	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	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	us200030ng	Id of event.
Event Code	200030ng	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak11653451,us200030ng,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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