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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Anchor Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 59.8863S, -153.6504WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 86 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska (53 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 100 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/08/16 / 2016-08-11 18:34:59 / August 11, 2016 @ 6:34 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: at00obrcyb, us10006d27, ak13840522. Unique identifier: ak13840522. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:59 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -153.6504° West, latitude 59.8863° North, depth = 100 km.

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

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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. 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: 86 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -153.6504° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 59.8863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km W of Anchor Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-11 18:34:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-11 18:57:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 1 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 191 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 ,at,us,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 0.83 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 ak13840522 Id of event.
Event Code 13840522 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00obrcyb,us10006d27,ak13840522, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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