Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near False Pass in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 163 km S of False Pass, Alaska (101 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 01:36:55 / July 27, 2016 @ 1:36 am. Event id: us10006a9r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13831327, us10006a9r. The temblor was detected at 14:36:55 / 2:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -163.5541 West, latitude 53.3823 North, depth = 31.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.7 km (20 miles).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 163 km S of False Pass, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-163.5541° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.3823° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	163km S of False Pass, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-27 01:36:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-18 03:49:08	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	1.246	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	284	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	us10006a9r	Id of event.
Event Code	10006a9r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13831327,us10006a9r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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