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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Cohoe in Alaska

Posted by admin on May 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.1213S, -150.6217WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -150.6217° West, 60.1213° North, depth 66.32 km. Global time and date of event 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 18:27:18 / May 25, 2016 @ 6:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:27:18 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.32 km (41 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005xvu. Id of event: us20005xvu.

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (31 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer, Kenai, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 46 km SE of Cohoe, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -150.6217° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.1213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SE of Cohoe, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-25 18:27:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-25 19:43:35 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 138 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us20005xvu Id of event.
Event Code 20005xvu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xvu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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