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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.9814S, -153.1381WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 60 km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska (37 miles) on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -153.1381° West, latitude 59.9814° North, depth = 240.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 240.4 km (149 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 14:46:33 / February 17, 2019 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:46:33 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak01927menqr. Ids that are associated to the event: ak01927menqr.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 60 km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.1381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.9814° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 240.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-17 14:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 14:49:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 168 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 0.98 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 ak01927menqr Id of event.
Event Code 01927menqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak01927menqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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