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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.5722S, -163.47WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 142 km S of False Pass, Alaska (88 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.32 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/19 / 2019-05-25 13:41:28 / May 25, 2019 @ 1:41 pm. The temblor was reported at 02:41:28 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -163.47° West, 53.5722° North, depth 37.32 km. Id of earthquake: us70003tt1. Event ids that are associated: ak0196o0wszq, us70003tt1.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 142 km S of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.47° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.5722° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km S 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 2019-05-25 13:41:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-23 15:31:14 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 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 ,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 1.116 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us70003tt1 Id of event.
Event Code 70003tt1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0196o0wszq,us70003tt1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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