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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 69 km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska


Earthquake location 66.3025S, -157.2189WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 69 km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska (43 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/19 / 2019-10-18 03:20:37 / October 18, 2019 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -157.2189° West, 66.3025° North, depth 0.1 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:20:37 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: ak019ddbanq1. Event ids that are associated: ak019ddbanq1.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SSW of Kobuk, 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 -157.2189° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.3025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-18 03:20:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-18 03:25:04 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 0.83 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 ak019ddbanq1 Id of event.
Event Code 019ddbanq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019ddbanq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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