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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Kiska Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.668S, 176.6788WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 79 km SW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska (49 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000gbzv. Event ids that are associated: ak19966233, us2000gbzv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:08:33 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.6788 East, latitude 51.668 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 23/07/18 / 2018-07-23 18:08:33 / July 23, 2018 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km SW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.6788° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km SW of Kiska Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-23 18:08:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-24 12:55:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 138 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 1.171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 310 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 us2000gbzv Id of event.
Event Code 2000gbzv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19966233,us2000gbzv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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