Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, Gulf of Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.04 km, -149.083° West, 55.6189° North. The temblor was detected at 09:19:58 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000d272. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d272. Global time and date of event 14/02/18 / 2018-02-14 19:19:58 / February 14, 2018 @ 7:19 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.04 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one thousand, five hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Gulf of Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.083° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.6189° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.04 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	2018-02-14 19:19:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-15 00:03:18	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	222	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	2.835	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	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	us2000d272	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d272	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d272,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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