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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Circle in


Earthquake location 66.1597S, -141.3968WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 126 km ENE of Circle, (78 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:33:36 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 38.4 km, -141.3968° West, 66.1597° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.4 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak11654228. Unique identifier: ak11654228. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 08:33:36 / July 24, 2015 @ 8:33 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 126 km ENE of Circle, .

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -141.3968° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 66.1597° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km ENE of Circle, Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 08:33:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 08:44:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 138 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 1.21 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 ak11654228 Id of event.
Event Code 11654228 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11654228, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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