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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 67 km WSW of Gustavus, Alaska


Earthquake location 58.1804S, -136.8046WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 67 km WSW of Gustavus, Alaska (42 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak15082415, us10007tl2. Unique identifier: us10007tl2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/17 / 2017-01-17 00:29:37 / January 17, 2017 @ 12:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:29:37 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -136.8046 West, latitude 58.1804 North, depth = 1 km.

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 ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km WSW of Gustavus, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.8046° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.1804° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km WSW of Gustavus, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-17 00:29:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-23 04:36:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 168 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 1.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us10007tl2 Id of event.
Event Code 10007tl2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15082415,us10007tl2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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