Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Bear Creek in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Bear Creek in Alaska. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:15:31 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak17112995. Event ids that are associated: ak17112995. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.7 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -149.9743 West, latitude 60.2788 North, depth = 27.7 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/17 / 2017-10-29 10:15:31 / October 29, 2017 @ 10:15 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Sterling. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WNW of Bear Creek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.9743° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.2788° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km WNW of Bear Creek, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-29 10:15:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-29 10:19:35	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	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	0.78 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	ak17112995	Id of event.
Event Code	17112995	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak17112995,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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