Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:34:38 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -149.7362° West, 55.9457° North, depth 12 km. Unique identifier: ak18300318. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18300318. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 19:34:38 / January 24, 2018 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and fourty-six, in the last 10 days eight hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixteen 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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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: Gulf of Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.7362° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.9457° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Gulf of Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-24 19:34:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-03 02:33:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	0.66 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	ak18300318	Id of event.
Event Code	18300318	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18300318,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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