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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Cold Bay in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.7698S, -162.2737WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 54 km SSE of Cold Bay, Alaska (34 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.57 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:11:17 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/12/17 / 2017-12-23 16:11:17 / December 23, 2017 @ 4:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -162.2737° West, 54.7698° North, depth 86.57 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak17648669, us1000bwxy. Id of event: us1000bwxy.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km SSE of Cold Bay, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -162.2737° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.7698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km SSE of Cold Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-23 16:11:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-21 21:21:19 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 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 222 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 0.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us1000bwxy Id of event.
Event Code 1000bwxy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak17648669,us1000bwxy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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