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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Haines Junction in Canada


Earthquake location 61.4953S, -140.6077WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 186 km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada (116 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/20 / 2020-04-30 10:17:34 / April 30, 2020 @ 10:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude -140.6077 West, latitude 61.4953 North, depth = 0 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:17:34 / 2:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0205ka31m0. Unique identifier: ak0205ka31m0.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 186 km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -140.6077° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 61.4953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-30 10:17:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-30 10:23:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 0.72 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 ak0205ka31m0 Id of event.
Event Code 0205ka31m0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205ka31m0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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