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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Skagway in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.768S, -136.3614WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 68 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska (42 miles) on Monday. Event id: us2000h76t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20240569, us2000h76t. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:13:31 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/18 / 2018-09-03 16:13:31 / September 3, 2018 @ 4:13 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -136.3614° West, latitude 59.768° North, depth = 5 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 68 km WNW of Skagway, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -136.3614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km WNW of Skagway, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-03 16:13:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-16 16:55:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 158 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 0.608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us2000h76t Id of event.
Event Code 2000h76t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak20240569,us2000h76t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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