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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Craig in Alaska


Earthquake location 55.3412S, -134.4681WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 84 km W of Craig, Alaska (52 miles) on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17098636, us1000ax2v. Id of event: us1000ax2v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.4 km (4 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:01:32 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -134.4681° West, latitude 55.3412° North, depth = 6.4 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/10/17 / 2017-10-26 08:01:32 / October 26, 2017 @ 8:01 am.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 84 km W of Craig, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -134.4681° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.3412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km W of Craig, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-26 08:01:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-26 08:18:01 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 1 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 234 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 ,ak,us, 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 0.95 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ax2v Id of event.
Event Code 1000ax2v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17098636,us1000ax2v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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