Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Alaska Peninsula

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported Alaska Peninsula (0 miles) on Friday. Id of earthquake: ak13758040. Event ids that are associated: ak13758040. Exact location of event, depth 12.7 km, -159.6368° West, 55.1794° North. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:23:09 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.7 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 22:23:09 / July 15, 2016 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Alaska Peninsula.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.6368° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	55.1794° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.7 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	2016-07-15 22:23:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-21 18:48:58	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	199	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	68	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	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104.399991648	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	ak13758040	Id of event.
Event Code	13758040	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13758040,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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