Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near City of Saint Paul in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 173 km ESE of City of Saint Paul, Alaska (107 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -167.7837 West, latitude 56.3826 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:03:45 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/04/16 / 2016-04-05 13:03:45 / April 5, 2016 @ 1:03 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak13322353. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13322353.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 173 km ESE of City of Saint Paul, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-167.7837° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.3826° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	173km ESE of City of Saint Paul, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-05 13:03:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-12 16:47:34	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	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	19	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	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140.399988768	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	ak13322353	Id of event.
Event Code	13322353	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13322353,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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