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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 108 km SE of False Pass, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.2424S, -162.1006WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 108 km SE of False Pass, Alaska (67 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.57 km (12 miles). Global time and date of event 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 16:23:45 / July 20, 2018 @ 4:23 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:23:45 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -162.1006 West, latitude 54.2424 North, depth = 18.57 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak19919759, us2000g9vx. Unique identifier: us2000g9vx.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 108 km SE of False Pass, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -162.1006° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.2424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km SE of False Pass, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-20 16:23:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 16:18:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 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 178 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 0.983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us2000g9vx Id of event.
Event Code 2000g9vx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak19919759,us2000g9vx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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