Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Event id: us10005e3q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005e3q. Exact location of earthquake, -152.152° West, 60.425° North, depth 78.5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 78.5 km (49 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:17:36 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/16 / 2016-04-29 08:17:36 / April 29, 2016 @ 8:17 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Kenai, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ESE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.152° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.425° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km ESE 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	2016-04-29 08:17:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-15 12:07:49	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	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	222	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	0.56 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	us10005e3q	Id of event.
Event Code	10005e3q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005e3q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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