Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Fritz Creek in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/17 / 2017-03-02 05:50:47 / March 2, 2017 @ 5:50 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -150.5527° West, latitude 59.6939° North, depth = 32.7 km. Event id: ak15427092. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak15427092. The temblor was picked up at 20:50:47 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 32.7 km (20 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km E of Fritz Creek, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.5527° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.6939° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km E of Fritz Creek, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-02 05:50:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-02 06:01:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	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	168	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	0.63 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	ak15427092	Id of event.
Event Code	15427092	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak15427092,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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