Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Kiska Volcano in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 24 km ESE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (15 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:56:13 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 177.9399 East, latitude 52.0411 North, depth = 13.1 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.1 km (8 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 14:56:13 / December 2, 2015 @ 2:56 pm. Id of earthquake: ak12172068. Event ids that are associated: ak12172068.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km ESE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	177.9399° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.0411° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ESE of Kiska Volcano, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-02 14:56:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-08 09:00:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	7	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	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	323.99997408	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	ak12172068	Id of event.
Event Code	12172068	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12172068,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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