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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Chiniak in Alaska


Earthquake location 56.0188S, -149.9936WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 225 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska (140 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 23:01:03 / November 2, 2024 @ 11:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nplw. Unique identifier: us7000nplw. The temblor was picked up at 23:01:03 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -149.9936° West, 56.0188° North.

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

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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. 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: 225 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.9936° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 56.0188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 225 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-02 23:01:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-02 23:34:05 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 178 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us7000nplw Id of event.
Event Code 7000nplw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nplw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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