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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Manley Hot Springs in Alaska


Earthquake location 65.2645S, -150.006WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 41 km NE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -150.006 West, latitude 65.2645 North, depth = 2.6 km. Event id: ak15315292. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15315292. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.6 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 20/02/17 / 2017-02-20 17:56:07 / February 20, 2017 @ 5:56 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:56:07 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km NE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 65.2645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-20 17:56:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-20 18:10:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.46 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 automatic 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 223 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 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 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak15315292 Id of event.
Event Code 15315292 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak15315292, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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