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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Alaska


Earthquake location 55.3135S, -148.9683WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes Gulf of Alaska (0 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 8.21 km, -148.9683° West, 55.3135° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.21 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/18 / 2018-03-25 08:14:10 / March 25, 2018 @ 8:14 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000d8u3. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d8u3. The temblor was reported at 22:14:10 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.9683° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.3135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.21 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 2018-03-25 08:14:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-25 08:32:39 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 3.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 us1000d8u3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d8u3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d8u3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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