Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near King Cove in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 248 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska (154 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -161.5271° West, latitude 52.8811° North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 03:41:05 / July 30, 2024 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n76w. Id of event: us7000n76w. The temblor was picked up at 03:41:05 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter).

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 two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 248 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.5271° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	52.8811° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	248 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-30 03:41:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-16 04:43:13	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	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.274	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	188	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	us7000n76w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n76w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n76w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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