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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Sterling in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.464S, -150.614WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Sterling in Alaska on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 10:43:35 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 19:43:35 / November 7, 2015 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10003vl3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vl3. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.4 km (32 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.614 West, latitude 60.464 North, depth = 51.4 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Kenai, Sterling (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 11 km SE of Sterling, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SE of Sterling, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-07 19:43:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-06 17:11:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 158 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 ,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 0.86 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 us10003vl3 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vl3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vl3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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