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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.1148S, -152.4051WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/02/16 / 2016-02-02 15:51:30 / February 2, 2016 @ 3:51 pm. Exact location, longitude -152.4051° West, latitude 60.1148° North, depth = 98.4 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.4 km (61 miles). Unique identifier: ak12639624. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12639624. The temblor was picked up at 06:51:30 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Homer, Kalifornsky. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 45 km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -152.4051° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.1148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-02 15:51:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-02 16:26:30 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 automatic 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 0.56 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 ak12639624 Id of event.
Event Code 12639624 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12639624, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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