Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Cold Bay in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 31 km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska (19 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 173.53 km (108 miles). Unique identifier: us1000atk3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak17039788, us1000atk3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -162.5389 West, latitude 55.4509 North, depth = 173.53 km. The temblor was reported at 04:34:36 / 4:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 13:34:36 / October 14, 2017 @ 1:34 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 31 km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-162.5389° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.4509° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	173.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-14 13:34:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-12 21:31:21	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	178	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	0.309	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us1000atk3	Id of event.
Event Code	1000atk3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17039788,us1000atk3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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