Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Juneau in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Juneau in Alaska. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:57:40 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -133.5174° West, latitude 58.3367° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000b2i9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000b2i9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/20 / 2020-07-23 07:57:40 / July 23, 2020 @ 7:57 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Juneau (c. 31 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juneau. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days thirty-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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 53 km E of Juneau, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-133.5174° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.3367° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km E of Juneau, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-23 07:57:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-28 14:27:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	158	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	0.532	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us6000b2i9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b2i9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b2i9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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