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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.0648S, -153.1399WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 51 km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska (32 miles) on Friday. Event id: ak11758892. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11758892. Exact location of event, depth 100 km, -153.1399° West, 60.0648° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100 km (62 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/15 / 2015-10-30 15:48:02 / October 30, 2015 @ 3:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:48:02 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.1399° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-30 15:48:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-30 16:28:48 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 0.71 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 ak11758892 Id of event.
Event Code 11758892 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak11758892, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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