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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Cape Yakataga in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.44S, -141.106WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 84 km ENE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska (52 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -141.106 West, latitude 60.44 North, depth = 1 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:12:22 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00nxs8sm. Unique identifier: at00nxs8sm. Global time and date of event 14/11/15 / 2015-11-14 02:12:22 / November 14, 2015 @ 2:12 am UTC/GMT.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 84 km ENE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -141.106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.44° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km ENE of Cape Yakataga, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-14 02:12:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-14 02:15:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 1 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 222 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.54707401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133.2 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 at00nxs8sm Id of event.
Event Code 00nxs8sm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nxs8sm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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