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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Y in Alaska


Earthquake location 62.3298S, -149.2336WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Y in Alaska. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.7 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 14:07:08 / June 28, 2018 @ 2:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 05:07:08 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak19806874. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19806874. Exact location of event, longitude -149.2336 West, latitude 62.3298 North, depth = 19.7 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Palmer (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Meadow Lakes, Lakes (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 nine and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 37 km ENE of Y, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -149.2336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.3298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km ENE of Y, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-28 14:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-28 14:11:56 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 168 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 0.69 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 ak19806874 Id of event.
Event Code 19806874 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19806874, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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