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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Kenai Peninsula, Alaska


Earthquake location 59.879S, -151.8499WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The temblor was reported at 18:59:32 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 18:59:32 / November 26, 2015 @ 6:59 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -151.8499 West, latitude 59.879 North, depth = 55.6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.6 km (35 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12088088. Id of event: ak12088088.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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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: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.8499° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-26 18:59:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 19:10:30 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 148 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 0.67 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 ak12088088 Id of event.
Event Code 12088088 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12088088, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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