Minor earthquake 3 mag, 57 km E of Juneau, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Juneau in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bcmn. Unique identifier: us6000bcmn. Exact location of event, longitude -133.4418 West, latitude 58.3477 North, depth = 2.53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.53 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 14:17:14 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/08/20 / 2020-08-11 14:17:14 / August 11, 2020 @ 2:17 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juneau. Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Juneau (c. 31 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 57 km E of Juneau, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-133.4418° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.3477° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 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	2020-08-11 14:17:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-11 15:25:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	139	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	0.572	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us6000bcmn	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bcmn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bcmn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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