Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 46 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 46 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska (29 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -149.7217 West, latitude 63.1541 North, depth = 91.3 km. Id of earthquake: ak12793796. Event ids that are associated: ak12793796. Global time and date of event 10/02/16 / 2016-02-10 02:10:50 / February 10, 2016 @ 2:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 91.3 km (57 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:10:50 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 46 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.7217° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	63.1541° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	91.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km SW of Cantwell, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-10 02:10:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-10 08:32:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	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	automatic	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	148	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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3898688	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35.99999712	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	ak12793796	Id of event.
Event Code	12793796	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak12793796,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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