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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0588S, -148.5612WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.7 km (12 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:22:15 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -148.5612° West, 56.0588° North, depth 19.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/02/18 / 2018-02-10 05:22:15 / February 10, 2018 @ 5:22 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000d03g. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d03g.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Gulf of Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.5612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.7 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 2018-02-10 05:22:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-10 07:14:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 211 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 ,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 2.801 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d03g Id of event.
Event Code 2000d03g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d03g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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