Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Chirik

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 146 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska (91 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:57:48 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.3031 West, latitude 56.0432 North, depth = 15.3 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20440492. Id of event: ak20440492. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.3 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 17:57:48 / December 3, 2018 @ 5:57 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 146 km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-153.3031° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.0432° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	146km E of Chirikof Island, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-12-03 17:57:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-03 18:12:33	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	automatic	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	188	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	0.58 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	ak20440492	Id of event.
Event Code	20440492	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak20440492,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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