Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:26:19 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10.1 km, -149.9167° West, 55.9219° North. Event id: ak18300075. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18300075. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 07:26:19 / January 24, 2018 @ 7:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and eleven, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Gulf of Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.9167° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.9219° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 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 07:26:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-03 02:29:43	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	138	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	0.57 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	ak18300075	Id of event.
Event Code	18300075	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18300075,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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