Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 166 km SSE of Yakutat, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 166 km SSE of Yakutat, Alaska (103 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/17 / 2017-11-08 00:54:33 / November 8, 2017 @ 12:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17170043, us2000bk79. Id of event: us2000bk79. Exact location, longitude -139.0992° West, latitude 58.0875° North, depth = 20.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.2 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:54:33 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 166 km SSE of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.0992° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.0875° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	166km SSE of Yakutat, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-08 00:54:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-21 03:52:11	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 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	us2000bk79	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bk79	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17170043,us2000bk79,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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