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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Whittier in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.377S, -147.3591WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 84 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska (52 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 05:19:44 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ak20145619. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20145619. Global time and date of event 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 14:19:44 / August 22, 2018 @ 2:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -147.3591 West, latitude 60.377 North, depth = 7.7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.7 km (5 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 84 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -147.3591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.377° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km ESE of Whittier, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-22 14:19:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-22 14:26:05 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 0.65 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 ak20145619 Id of event.
Event Code 20145619 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20145619, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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