Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near False Pass in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 146 km SE of False Pass, Alaska (91 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 11:47:34 / May 15, 2016 @ 11:47 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 29.86 km, -162.005° West, 53.8213° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.86 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:47:34 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10005jgd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak13585240, us10005jgd.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 146 km SE of False Pass, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-162.005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.8213° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	146km SE of False Pass, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-15 11:47:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-31 08:31:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-660	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	188	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	,ak,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	1.297	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	202	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	us10005jgd	Id of event.
Event Code	10005jgd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13585240,us10005jgd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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