Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Homer in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Homer in Alaska. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:59:18 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak13546418. Unique identifier: ak13546418. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.8 km (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/05/16 / 2016-05-10 22:59:18 / May 10, 2016 @ 10:59 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -151.0398 West, latitude 59.0882 North, depth = 25.8 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 68 km SSE of Homer, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.0398° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.0882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km SSE of Homer, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-10 22:59:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-10 23:34:32	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	0.76 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	ak13546418	Id of event.
Event Code	13546418	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13546418,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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