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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Perryville in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.0974S, -158.3322WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 104 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (65 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/20 / 2020-08-02 12:16:08 / August 2, 2020 @ 12:16 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -158.3322 West, latitude 55.0974 North, depth = 1 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:16:08 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak0209vrs9oo. Event ids that are associated: us6000b8c3, ak0209vrs9oo.

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.3322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-02 12:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-18 07:30:56 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 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 ,us,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 0.58 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 ak0209vrs9oo Id of event.
Event Code 0209vrs9oo An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8c3,ak0209vrs9oo, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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