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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 129 km SE of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska


Earthquake location 69.2896S, -146.4677WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 129 km SE of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (80 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hc7c. Id of event: us2000hc7c. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:14:11 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -146.4677° West, 69.2896° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/18 / 2018-09-10 23:14:11 / September 10, 2018 @ 11:14 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-eight 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 129 km SE of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -146.4677° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 69.2896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km SE of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-10 23:14:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-10 23:36:18 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 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 168 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 ,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 0.046 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 108 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 us2000hc7c Id of event.
Event Code 2000hc7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hc7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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