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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Alaska Peninsula


Earthquake location 57.0562S, -158.1898WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Alaska Peninsula (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:40:33 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -158.1898° West, 57.0562° North, depth 35.1 km. Event id: ak13422149. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13422149. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/04/16 / 2016-04-04 10:40:33 / April 4, 2016 @ 10:40 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.1 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Alaska Peninsula. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -158.1898° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.0562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Alaska Peninsula Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-04 10:40:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 19:14:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 138 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09162816 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179.9999856 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 ak13422149 Id of event.
Event Code 13422149 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13422149, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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