Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). Unique identifier: ak18300062. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18300062. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.7978 West, latitude 56.1065 North, depth = 10.3 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.3 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 06:57:35 / January 24, 2018 @ 6:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:57:35 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and twenty, in the last 10 days eight hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.7978° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.1065° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Gulf of Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-24 06:57:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-03 02:29:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	138	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	ak18300062	Id of event.
Event Code	18300062	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18300062,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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