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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 76 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska


Earthquake location 62.726S, -148.6012WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 76 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska (47 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57 km (35 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:42 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak019cd11mui. Unique identifier: ak019cd11mui. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 09:20:42 / September 26, 2019 @ 9:20 am. Exact location of event, depth 57 km, -148.6012° West, 62.726° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 76 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -148.6012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-26 09:20:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 09:27:32 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 0.47 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 ak019cd11mui Id of event.
Event Code 019cd11mui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019cd11mui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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