Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cape Yakataga in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 47 km WNW of Cape Yakataga, Alaska (29 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:44:21 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -143.1568° West, latitude 60.2857° North, depth = 0.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/19 / 2019-08-25 01:44:21 / August 25, 2019 @ 1:44 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019avz85ms. Id of event: ak019avz85ms. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WNW of Cape Yakataga, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-143.1568° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.2857° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km WNW 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	2019-08-25 01:44:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-25 01:46:43	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	138	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	0.96 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	ak019avz85ms	Id of event.
Event Code	019avz85ms	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak019avz85ms,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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