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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Lake Louise in Alaska


Earthquake location 62.7642S, -146.4998WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 53 km N of Lake Louise, Alaska (33 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 133.7 km (83 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 07:53:02 / October 26, 2020 @ 7:53 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020ds9piij. Id of event: ak020ds9piij. Exact location of event, longitude -146.4998 West, latitude 62.7642 North, depth = 133.7 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:53:02 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km N of Lake Louise, 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 -146.4998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.7642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km N of Lake Louise, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-26 07:53:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-26 07:58:03 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 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 1.08 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 ak020ds9piij Id of event.
Event Code 020ds9piij An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020ds9piij, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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