Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Chignik Lake in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 93 km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska (58 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.19 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, depth 32.19 km, -158.4296° West, 55.4353° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/16 / 2016-06-14 00:13:11 / June 14, 2016 @ 12:13 am. Unique identifier: us200064y0. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13645722, us200064y0. The temblor was detected at 13:13:11 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 93 km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-158.4296° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.4353° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93km SSE of Chignik Lake, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-14 00:13:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-21 00:03:22	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	0.785	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us200064y0	Id of event.
Event Code	200064y0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13645722,us200064y0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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