Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 104 km NW of Sand Point, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km NW of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us1000cf1k. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18300153, us1000cf1k. Exact location of event, longitude -161.6455 West, latitude 56.0181 North, depth = 217.3 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:31:29 / 2:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 11:31:29 / January 24, 2018 @ 11:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 217.3 km (135 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 104 km NW of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-161.6455° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.0181° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	217.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104km NW of Sand Point, 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 11:31:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-16 08:04:19	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	148	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 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	us1000cf1k	Id of event.
Event Code	1000cf1k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak18300153,us1000cf1k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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