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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Haines Junction in Canada


Earthquake location 60.0846S, -137.9244WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 77 km SSW of Haines Junction, Canada (48 miles) on Thursday. Event id: us1000ekpu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19727187, us1000ekpu. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:26:33 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.18 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/18 / 2018-06-07 21:26:33 / June 7, 2018 @ 9:26 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -137.9244° West, 60.0846° North, depth 2.18 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 77 km SSW of Haines Junction, Canada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -137.9244° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.0846° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SSW of Haines Junction, Canada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-07 21:26:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-07 21:38:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 148 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 0.771 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us1000ekpu Id of event.
Event Code 1000ekpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19727187,us1000ekpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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