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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Old Iliamna in Alaska


Earthquake location 59.6841S, -153.3769WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 86 km E of Old Iliamna, Alaska (53 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -153.3769 West, latitude 59.6841 North, depth = 110.7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/16 / 2016-02-13 21:17:06 / February 13, 2016 @ 9:17 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ak12808611. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak12808611. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.7 km (69 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:17:06 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 86 km E of Old Iliamna, 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 -153.3769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.6841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km E of Old Iliamna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-13 21:17:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-15 18:43:30 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 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3036306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68.399994528 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 ak12808611 Id of event.
Event Code 12808611 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak12808611, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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