Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Cold Bay in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 94 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska (58 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.05 km (15 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 18:30:08 / May 20, 2016 @ 6:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -161.6168 West, latitude 54.6272 North, depth = 24.05 km. Unique identifier: us20005ypb. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13596286, us20005ypb. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:30:08 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven 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. 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: 94 km SE of Cold Bay, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.6168° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.6272° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94km SE 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	2016-05-20 18:30:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-14 15:41:42	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	138	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	0.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	us20005ypb	Id of event.
Event Code	20005ypb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13596286,us20005ypb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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