Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Redoubt Volcano in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -152.3078 West, latitude 60.2573 North, depth = 98 km. The temblor was reported at 11:25:54 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 19:25:54 / July 27, 2016 @ 7:25 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: ak13808979. Event ids that are associated: ak13808979. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98 km (61 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Kalifornsky. Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 34 km SE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-152.3078° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.2573° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SE 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	2016-07-27 19:25:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-27 19:52:02	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	148	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	0.58 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	ak13808979	Id of event.
Event Code	13808979	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak13808979,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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