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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Cape Yakataga in Alaska


Earthquake location 58.2393S, -142.6361WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 203 km S of Cape Yakataga, Alaska (126 miles) on Sunday. Global time and date of event 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 11:32:54 / March 24, 2019 @ 11:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -142.6361 West, latitude 58.2393 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:32:54 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jkym. Unique identifier: us1000jkym. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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: 203 km S of Cape Yakataga, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -142.6361° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 58.2393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 203km S of Cape Yakataga, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 11:32:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-27 06:12:28 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 168 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 1.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000jkym Id of event.
Event Code 1000jkym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jkym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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